5 treatment settings, 2 with more than one named option. Each section lays out the options the standard of care names, what each is for, the trials behind them with their recorded results, the side effects and cautions on record, and questions to ask. Built from the cancer page's standard-of-care rows; nothing here is advice for your case.
Endoscopy or enteroscopy with biopsy, CT of chest, abdomen and pelvis, mismatch repair testing and germline assessment.
A CT scan is a fast 3D X-ray that shows the size and shape of tumours and whether they have spread.
A test of the DNA you were born with, to find inherited risk genes such as BRCA or Lynch syndrome.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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Pancreaticoduodenectomy for proximal duodenal tumours; segmental resection for distal duodenal tumours; endoscopic resection only for adenomas.
This setting names no product or technology record yet; the approach above is the standard as written. Ask your team which specific treatments they mean.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
No side-effect rates or interaction flags are recorded for these options yet. The side-effect lookup and interaction checker cover the products that have them.
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Segmental resection with wide mesenteric lymphadenectomy; right hemicolectomy for terminal ileal tumours.
This setting names no product or technology record yet; the approach above is the standard as written. Ask your team which specific treatments they mean.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
No side-effect rates or interaction flags are recorded for these options yet. The side-effect lookup and interaction checker cover the products that have them.
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Observation for stage I and low-risk stage II; adjuvant CAPOX or FOLFOX for stage III and high-risk stage II, extrapolated from colon cancer pending BALLAD.
CAPOX pairs the oral fluoropyrimidine capecitabine with intravenous oxaliplatin as a pill-based alternative to FOLFOX. For low-risk stage III colon cancer three months after surgery works as well as six and halves nerve damage; it is also standard in gastric cancer, with hand-foot syndrome as its price.
FOLFOX is the workhorse chemotherapy combination for bowel cancer, used after surgery to cure and in advanced disease as the backbone that targeted drugs are added to.
Cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs (platinums, antimetabolites, microtubule agents and topoisomerase inhibitors) kill rapidly dividing cells by damaging DNA or the mitotic spindle. They still cure testicular cancer, lymphoma and leukaemia, and they are the warhead inside antibody-drug conjugates, but a narrow margin between effective and toxic doses is their limitation.
No headline result recorded yet.
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CT and CEA every six to twelve months; endoscopic surveillance of the remaining duodenum in FAP.
A CT scan is a fast 3D X-ray that shows the size and shape of tumours and whether they have spread.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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