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Adjuvant XELOX Improves Outcomes in Gastric Cancer
Adjuvant XELOX Improves Outcomes in Gastric Cancer
S London
20110528
2011 Jun 28
Elsevier Global Medical News
Adjuvant XELOX Improves Outcomes in Gastric Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Jun 28, S London
CHICAGO (EGMN) - Patients with gastric cancer have better outcomes if they are given adjuvant capecitabine plus oxaliplatin after undergoing curative resection that includes an extended lymph-node dissection, according to results of the CLASSIC trial from China, South Korea, and TaiwanInvestigators randomized 1,035 patients to either simple observation or XELOX (the combination of capecitabine plus oxaliplatin) after...