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Allan A Lima Pereira, Gabriel Lenz, Tiago Biachi de Castria

Despite being considered a rare type of malignancy, constituting only 3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, the incidence of biliary tract cancers (BTCs) has been increasing worldwide in recent years, with about 20,000 new cases annually only in the USA.1–3 These cancers arise from the biliary epithelium of the small ducts in the periphery of the liver […]

Linda Mileshkin, ESMO 2019 – Phase III OUTBACK trial in cervical cancer

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Published Online: Oct 7th 2019

We joined Linda Mileshkin (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) following her presentation at ESMO 2019 to discuss the disparities of starting adjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervix cancer in the international, academic, randomised, phase III OUTBACK trial.

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1. Could you tell us a little about the OUTBACK trial and its findings? (0:06)
2. What was the impact of the delayed start of adjuvant therapy on clinical outcomes? (1:31)
3. What can be done to minimise these disparities? (2:01)
4. What are the key take home messages of your presentation? (2:40)

Filmed at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

Speaker disclosure: Linda Mileshkin has nothing to disclose in relation to this video.

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