Fig. 1: Over time, as a patient’s cancer burden increases, the corresponding goals evolve, and anti-cancer treatment is accordingly customised to provide goal-concordant care. | British Journal of Cancer

Fig. 1: Over time, as a patient’s cancer burden increases, the corresponding goals evolve, and anti-cancer treatment is accordingly customised to provide goal-concordant care.

From: Determining lines of therapy in patients with solid cancers: a proposed new systematic and comprehensive framework

Fig. 1

Line of therapy (LoT) should be reported in a standard format as LoT N (CLoT + PLoT). The distinction between CLoT (curative intent and/or early setting) and PLoT (palliative intent and/or advanced setting) could be unclear in some scenarios, and the clinician should make a considered decision keeping in mind the type of cancer as well as individual patient characteristics.

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