Abstract:In the beginning, the concept of adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery or other localized treatment modality was met with skepticism, especially among surgeons. Slowly, with earnest work from many-but notably the Milan Group in breast cancer; the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project in colon cancer; and the International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial Collaborative Group, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), and others in lung cancer-a 4% to50% reduction in the risk of cancer recurrence was … Show more
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