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ASO Author Reflections: Discordant Pathologic and Radiologic Response of Colorectal Liver Metastases After Chemotherapy: Which One Should We Trust to Predict Outcome and to Tailor Postoperative Chemotherapy?

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Antoine Brouquet has received speaker’s fees from Takeda, Merck-Serono, Abbvie, Roche, Amgen, and Janssen-Cilag; and scientific meeting invitations from Biom’up, Eumedica, Nestlé, and Roche. Stephane Benoist has received board fees from Amgen and Biom’up; fees for oral presentations from Amgen, Roche, Merck Serrono, Nestlé, Servier, and Sanofi; and congress invitations from Biom’up, Merck, and Roche.

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ASO Author Reflections is a brief invited commentary on the article “What is the prognostic value of a discordant radiologic and pathologic response in patients undergoing resection of colorectal liver metastases after preoperative chemotherapy?”, Ann Surg Oncol. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-08284-1

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Brouquet, A., Benoist, S. ASO Author Reflections: Discordant Pathologic and Radiologic Response of Colorectal Liver Metastases After Chemotherapy: Which One Should We Trust to Predict Outcome and to Tailor Postoperative Chemotherapy?. Ann Surg Oncol 27, 2886–2887 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-08338-4

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