Medical Oncology

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PFS curves appear similar between the AKT-altered vs overall study population in the trial publication. Is there any additional information available ...

Since HR low-positive, HER2 neg tumors behave aggressively similar to TNBC, does the degree of HR positivity factor into your decision-making?

Patient with stage IV ER+PR+Her2- breast cancer progressed after CDK4/6 inhibitor+AI and then on Elacestrant. Guardant 360 showed ESR1 mutation and PI...

In MONALEESA-2, it appears ~22% of those in the ribcociclib group received a subsequent CDK4/6 inhibitor. What was the rationale and could this have i...

Do you give first-line CDK 4/6 inhibitors with Tamoxifen or Aromatase Inhibitor (+/- GnRH analog)?

Should these patients have a different threshold for utilizing a CDK4/6 inhibitor in the front line metastatic or as part of adjuvant therapy, or SERD...

Young healthy patient, ER/PR positive HER2 negative right breast cancer with a synchronous single site of oligometastatic disease in the right 4th rib...

The patient previously received endocrine therapy alone and in combination with CDK 4/6 inhibitor. She does not have any targetable mutations on NGS. ...

What data may support the routine escalation of endocrine therapy? Should HER2 therapy be prioritized instead?

How do you reconcile the apparent benefit in all patients in this group as opposed to the differential effects in premenopausal HR+ node-negative pati...

What type of adjuvant chemotherapy would you offer? Would clinically positive lymph nodes or residual disease at the time of surgery change your decis...

MONARCHE added an amendment to their protocol to exclude inflammatory breast cancer so they technically would not qualify for the trial though it's ha...

Patient is pre-menopausal and has cT3cN1, grade 2, ER positive, Her 2 negative IDC. Metastatic disease to axillary LNs was biopsy-proven. Patient was ...

Is deferring chemotherapy based on low oncotype acceptable in setting of recurrence?    Would you recommend using a different AI, Tam...

Would you recommend using chemotherapy based on RxPonder regardless of Oncotype score in a premenopausal patient? Or would you hold chemotherapy since...

(Assuming they meet MonarchE criteria) For example, if the patient is in year 2, 3, 4, or 5 of adjuvant endocrine therapy versus 9 months out, would ...

Is there a role for KEYNOTE-522 since ER + metaplastic breast cancer have similar behavior to triple negative metaplastic breast cancer? 

Do you use a q4 week or q12 week formulation? If you use both in your practice, what factors into your decision making for either one?

While rare, these patients were excluded from all frontline CDK4/6 inhibitor trials. Is there any data on the efficacy of ribociclib in the CNS or abi...

Results with fulvestrant and letrozole backbone in MONALEESA and MONARCH trials seem comparable, but PALOMA data is somewhat mixed. How do these trial...

Subgroup analyses in MONALEESA-2 suggest more benefit in de novo treatment naive patients, which is in contrast to MONARCH-3 data presented at ESMO 20...

If a patient previously received taxane-based chemotherapy for the initial cancer, is additional chemotherapy recommended or can HER2-directed and hor...

Is the marginal advantage of AC/T in 1-3 node positive outweighed by toxicity such as risk of cardiotoxicity and leukemia, regardless of RS?

Can you use 50 mg BID if intolerant to 150 mg and 100 mg dosing? Any tips for side effect management to help patients stay on full duration?

MonarchE shows statistically significant improvement in IDFS and DRFS, but the magnitude of absolute benefit is modest (3-year IDFS and DRFS rates = 5...

Majority of patients on MonarchE received neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemo.  Does the availability of abemaciclib impact your decision to offer chemo ...

Do you look into their stage/risk to decide? Since patients can experience bone loss after stopping denosumab, how do you plan to discontinue?

What steps should be taken when switching premenopausal women from tamoxifen to AI? In this case, the change is due to newly discovered endometrial th...

Patient is a post-menopausal woman with 4 lymph node mets that was strongly ER+/PR+, HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma with a high Ki-67 w...

Endocrine therapy is usually not indicated for DCIS s/p bilateral mastectomy, but would the fact that residual tissue (nipple-sparing) alter your deci...

Would you consider omitting treatment if small tumor and early stage? Or would you use tamoxifen?

Patient was initially ER positive, HER2 positive. Currently she is on letrozole. Recurrence is ER/PR negative and HER2 positive and developed almost 2...

Patient is young and reoccurrence is one year after initial diagnosis of T1cN0 ER/PR positive, HER2-negative breast cancer treated with mastectomy, bu...

In subset analyses of OlympiA there seems to be smaller magnitude of benefit among HR+ patients. In your opinion, should adjuvant olabarib be offered ...

Patient underwent mastectomy for DCIS in the setting of previous lumpectomy and adjuvant radiation for the invasive breast cancer. 

Should this be sent on initial biopsy or on surgical pathology? What if an initially high risk patient has good risk findings post-operatively?What ha...

How would you manage endocrine therapy 7 years after the original ER+/PR+/HER2- IDC, while on adjuvant tamoxifen/OFS develops a contralateral ER+/PR+/...

For example, does a higher recurrence score influence your choice of TC versus AC-T?  Or your choice to add ovarian suppression to a premenopausa...

The patient is treatment naïve and asymptomatic. She also has disease in the body (bone and liver metastases). 

The patient initially received definitive therapy with AC-T and RT to the breast as well as RT to a solitary bone lesion. She has been on AI for the l...

The patient was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma at the age of 10 and completed 6 cycles of vincristine, ifosfamide, etoposide, adriamycin 75 mg/m...

Patient is on fulvestrant+CDK 4/6 inhibitor and with NED for 5 years. In which cases would you consider stopping CDK 4/6 inhibitor? 

<40y/o female w/ initial biopsy showing G3 IDC with 80% ER+, 90% PR+, and HER2 positive (IHC 2+; 1.6 HER2/CEP17 ratio and 6.3 HER2 copies/nucleus.)...

Is there an age cutoff below which you would offer adjuvant chemotherapy regardless of Oncotype results? (Example: A 35 y/o woman with T2N0, ER+, sen...

Would you choose to incorporate HER2-targeting agents, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, or a mix of these?

Are there particular patient characteristics (e.g. age, ER%, Ki67, grade) that make you more likely to choose neoadjuvant endocrine therapy?

Do features such as nodal involvement, Ki-67, degree of ER positivity, etc. change your management? Would you use any gene expression assays to help y...

Would you consider an Oncotype or Mammaprint? Would your management change if the patient had 1-3 positive LNs on SLNBx (as opposed to ALND)?

The woman was on on a GnRH agonist + AI due to her premenopausal status at diagnosis and now wants to know if she continues to need the GnRH agonist.&...

Knowing the differential effect seen with menopausal status in RxPONDER, would you avoid chemotherapy or still offer chemotherapy, given that only 15....

Patient had a clinical T2N0 cancer at diagnosis, completed 6 cycles TCHP, and had 0.2mm residual disease with 80% cellularity, negative sentinel node.

Referring to a high risk patient with cT3N1 disease and ypT2N0 disease following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

2 populations of cells with 95% negative by FISH (ratio 1.07) and 5% positive by FISH (ratio 10)

Based on MINDACT update from 2020, a 5% difference in DMFS for patients 50 years or younger was noted, favoring treatment with chemotherapy (93.6%; 95...

How would your treatment change given pCR rates are reportedly much lower in triple positive patients?

Pre-menopausal women make progesterone and their menses are typically lighter on tamoxifen because it's a mild endometrial ER stimulant blocking their...

How has your practice been impacted by the ECOG 2108 (Khan et al. ASCO 2020 Abst LBA2)? Are there sites or distribution of disease that prompt you to ...

She had had 4 prior biopsies. Would the fact that she received 2 months of neoadjuvant tamoxifen due to COVID change your approach?

While the KATHERINE trial for HER2+ used path staging, CREATE-X for TNBC with capecitabine used the Japanese Breast Cancer Society response criteria. ...

< 4 lymph nodes involved, initial diagnosis was 11 years ago when she was treated with mastectomy and adjuvant tamoxifen for 5 years.

This patient underwent mastectomy and ALND (10/28 positive lymph nodes). Immediately following axillary LN dissection (and prior to radiation) imaging...

Data from the SOFT/TEXT trials showed clinical benefit in ovarian suppression + aromatase inhibition for high risk, premenopausal ...

How would this change if the patient had metastatic HR+,HER2- breast cancer and now has symptomatic pancytopenia secondary to BM involvement after TCH...

ie, not a classic NTRK3-ETV6 fusion.The patient has progressed through CDk4/6 inhibitors and intolerant of alpelisib, and does not want chemotherapy.&...

She has no other site of disease progression and has been on an aromatase inhibitor (progressed in the CNS while on a study with adjuvant abemaciclib)...

In the absence of side effects, would you be inclined to continue beyond 10 years as chemoprevention? Would you factor an intermediate/high oncotype R...

Data presented at the 2017 SABCS (abstract GS1-01) of the EBCTCG meta-analysis stating a benefit of dose-dense chemotherapy applies to ER positive and...

Would you offer adjuvant chemotherapy to a post-menopausal woman with a BRCA2 mutation and a T2N0 ER positive breast cancer with an oncotype of 12?

It is included in favorable histologies on NCCN, but no mention of how to treat based off HER2 status.

She had disease progression on palbociclib and letrozole. She also has a PIK3CA mutation however did not tolerate alpelisib due to Grade 3 hyperglycem...

More generally, do absorption issues effect the efficacy of tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitors?

How would you figure out how to treat someone with a prior localized HR+,HER2- breast cancer treated with adjuvant AC-T (5years ago) and a recent ipsi...

Would you consider an aggressive approach with RT and/or surgery to the bone lesion and treat the primary as locally advanced breast cancer?

Neratinib was studied following adjuvant trastuzumab. Do you extrapolate that data to give neratinib to patients who have received adjuvant T-DM1 inst...

Patient defers chemotherapy. She is currently on anastrozole/Herceptin and perjeta with a response but it is suboptimal. I would like to add a CDK 4/6...

The use of neoadjuvant CDK 4/6 inhibitors is not standard of care, but there are clinical trials looking at this question and patients who are chemoth...

Clinical T1c patients were included in the KATHERINE trial that often are treated with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab

One such patient progressed through trastuzumab/pertuzumab/letrozole and TDM1 alone.  How would you combine ER+ approaches (eg CDK 4/6 inhibitor ...

There is a gray area in clinical decision making where the practice seems to be different for borderline size tumors such as a 7 mm T1b lesion with no...

Do you have a cutoff in terms of tumor size, number of LN, Oncotype score, etc that makes you choose lower vs higher intensity chemo?

Assume good compliance with oral therapy, equivalent access to either agent, no contraindictions to either therapy, and absence of any visceral crisis...


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