How would you manage a patient with MSS, KRAS mutated locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma with a mixed response to neoadjuvant FOLFOX?
This involves the primary site responding but progression with new bone marrow involvement with resulting cytopenias.
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
If there is new bone marrow involvement, I assume you confirmed this with a bone marrow biopsy? This would be a very unusual location for rectal cancer, so to speak. If you have not done a BMB, I would obtain pathologic proof of bone involvement. That would make this patient stage IV, in which case,...
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Thank you, Dr. @Mital S. Patel for your input. The...
Actually, you may expect to see improved cytopenia...