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Are you more inclined to offer adjuvant chemotherapy for a post-menopausal woman after lumpectomy for a small TNBC who has a concurrent metastatic ER+ breast CA?

Any difference in recommendations if the patient was asymptomatic from her metastatic ER+ disease? (eg bone mets)
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Would you offer adjuvant chemotherapy for a post-menopausal woman after lumpectomy for a small TNBC who has a concurrent metastatic ER+ breast CA?

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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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This is an unusual situation. I would not give adjuvant chemotherapy to this patient who already has metastatic disease, even indolent metastatic disease. First, the chance of developing metastatic disease from the triple-negative breast cancer is not 100%, it's more like 20-40% depending on how sma...

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