{"id":30263,"date":"2026-03-06T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=30263"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:06:00","slug":"120206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=30263","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Op Chemo or Upfront Surgery in Colon Cancer: Is One Strategy Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/120xxx\/120206.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; The use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy failed to improve disease-free survival (DFS) over upfront surgery in patients with locally advanced colon cancer, a phase III randomized trial showed.<br \/>\nAmong 248 patients, the DFS rate at&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/hematologyoncology\/coloncancer\/120206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; The use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy failed to improve disease-free survival (DFS) over upfront surgery in patients with locally advanced colon cancer, a phase III randomized trial showed. Among 248 patients, the DFS rate at&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[1749,10761,13975,20537,14668,5568,20538],"class_list":["post-30263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-cancer","tag-chemo","tag-colon","tag-preop","tag-strategy","tag-surgery","tag-upfront"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}