Medical Oncology

MD Anderson   

Questions discussed in this category


If CCRT is pursued, would you move forward with durvalumab consolidation? Assume the patient with ECOG PS 0 and no co-morbidities. How might this chan...

Do you feel differently about using these in patients with a history of HR-negative breast cancer?

Patient previously received neoadjuvant ddAC-T with residual disease at surgery, followed by adjuvant capecitabine which was completed 2 months prior ...

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

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...

How would you approach additional systemic therapy? Would the clinical stage of the cancer affect your management?

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

For example, if a patient had testosterone pellets injected, perhaps making endocrine therapy less efficacious, would that sway you to use chemo?

Do your recommendations differ if patients are pre or postmenopausal given the data?

I.e. either for treatment of high-risk disease or intolerance/contraindication to tamoxifen. Will you continue it for the full 5 year course?

In a patient with isolated leptomeningeal disease (no systemic disease), would you still recommend systemic therapy?

Do you reserve this approach for only women with triple negative breast cancer or all-comers?

At what point do you send these test, and in what instances do the results influence your treatment recommendations?


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