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Impact of diabetes comorbidity on the efficacy and safety of FOLFOX first-line chemotherapy among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of two phase-III studies.

Omar Abdel-Rahman
Published in: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico (2018)
DM does not seem to affect overall or progression-free survival of mCRC patients treated with first-line FOLFOX chemotherapy. Moreover, DM does not influence the incidence or severity of oxaliplatin-induced paresthesia in those patients while it might lead to a shorter time to develop oxaliplatin-induced paresthesia compared to non-diabetic patients.
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