Stage (stratigraphy)

Adjuvant chemotherapy

Chemotherapy

Adjuvant

Adjuvant therapy

Duration (music)

Oxaliplatin

Regimen

Biology

Cancer

Literature

Breast cancer

Internal medicine

Colorectal cancer

Oncology

Paleontology

Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

Since 2004, a regimen of 6 months of treatment with oxaliplatin plus a fluoropyrimidine has been standard adjuvant therapy in patients with stage III colon cancer. However, since oxaliplatin is associated with cumulative neurotoxicity, a shorter duration of therapy could spare toxic effects and health expenditures.

Duration of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colon Cancer