Medical Oncology

University of Michigan

University of Michigan Tumor Boards

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach therapy for BR-refractory Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia when there is a mixed response to zanabrutinib?

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Would you recommend allogeneic stem cell transplantation for consolidation in a patient with follicular lymphoma who relapsed within 13 months of initial chemo-immunotherapy?

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What salvage chemotherapy, if any, would you recommend for a patient with primary refractory DLBCL who progressed after two cycles of R-CHOP?

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How would you approach adjuvant therapy for a patient with pT2N2 lung adenocarcinoma who underwent an R1 resection and is not amenable to further surgical intervention?

NGS without any actionable mutations and PD-L1 TPS 15%. Would you offer chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy and, if so, in what order?

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In light of ALK-directed therapy, what is the role of chemotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed ALK+ DLBCL?

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How would you approach therapy for relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma restricted to the CNS?

1 Answer available

How would you approach a patient with mediastinal-only recurrence of small cell lung cancer < 6 months after primary surgical resection and adjuvant platinum-etoposide for Stage I disease?

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How would you manage a patient with history of follicular lymphoma treated with Bendamustine-Rituximab who now has a new FDG avid lesion that is biopsy proven CD30 positive CD20 negative DLBCL?

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Do you offer consolidation chemotherapy prior to durvalumab in locally advanced, unresectable NSCLC?

In clinical practice, consolidation chemotherapy is sometimes used, though this was not implemented in the PACIFIC trial. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

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Are you offering durvalumab to patients with Stage III NSCLC with known targeted mutations (ie ALK, EGFR, ROS1, BRAF) after completion of chemoradiation per PACIFIC?

The EGFR subgroup appeared not have benefited as much as other patients in the publication. However, recently it was reported that the PACIFIC study m...

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Would you resume durvalumab after several month hiatus due to IO unrelated medical comorbidities that has since resolved?

If it is still within the 12 month period and no disease recurrence?

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Would you offer upfront osimertinib rather than whole brain irradiation for a patient with stage IV, EGFR exon 19 mutated lung adenocarcinoma who presents with leptomeningeal metastases?

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Would you offer adjuvant chemotherapy to a patient with T3N0M0 NSCLC if the reason for the T3 stage was due to multiple tumor nodules in the same lobe?

All tumors in this case were <2cm in size.

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How would you approach the treatment of resectable NSCLC with a solitary resectable brain metastasis and no other sites of metastasis?

Would you offer adjuvant therapy post resection?

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Papers discussed in this category

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-12-13

Overall Survival with Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III NSCLC.

N Engl J Med, 2017 Nov 16

Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2008-12-10

Phase III study of cisplatin, etoposide, and concurrent chest radiation with or without consolidation docetaxel in patients with inoperable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: the Hoosier Oncology Group and U.S. Oncology.

J Thorac Oncol, 2016 Jul

Adjuvant Chemotherapy for T3 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Additional Tumor Nodules in the Same Lobe.

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2017-11

Activity and safety of AZD3759 in EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer with CNS metastases (BLOOM): a phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation and dose-expansion study.

JAMA oncology, 2017-05-01

Association of Delayed Adjuvant Chemotherapy With Survival After Lung Cancer Surgery.

Br J Cancer,

Phase II study of irinotecan combined with carboplatin in previously untreated small-cell lung cancer.

Haematologica, 2021 Jun 01

Brentuximab vedotin in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone as frontline treatment for patients with CD30-positive B-cell lymphomas.

Lancet (London, England), 2019-01-19

Brentuximab vedotin with chemotherapy for CD30-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma (ECHELON-2): a global, double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial.

N Engl J Med, 2021 Dec 11

Axicabtagene Ciloleucel as Second-Line Therapy for Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

Lancet Oncol, 2020 Jun 05

Tafasitamab plus lenalidomide in relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (L-MIND): a multicentre, prospective, single-arm, phase 2 study.

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