Medical Oncology

Triple negative   

Questions discussed in this category


What would be your approach to a patient who went straight to surgery due to HR+ biopsy, but found to be triple negative on surgical pathology? 

Following SRS to the brain lesions, is it safe to closely follow the patient for recurrence?

If yes, how do you assess the tumor response and how frequently while on neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy?

In which scenarios would you consider a parp inhibitor as the first line treatment of choice? 

Received neoadjuvant ddAC/T followed by adjuvant capecitabine for residual disease and found to have metastatic pulmonary nodules within months of sur...

The results presented by Sudeep Gupta (from the Tata Memorial Breast Group at 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium #GS5-01) showed no benefit (pCR...

In patients with prior perioperative immunotherapy with early relapse, would re-introduction of immunotherapy be reasonable with high TMB? 

Would you consider definitive local therapy (surgery, radiation?) if she achieved a good response to initial systemic therapy?

If said patient was known to be gBRCA mutated, would you use neoadjuvant chemotherapy to enable adjuvant olaparib for those that did not have a pCR? &...

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 has already received neo/adjuvant treatment with AC, paclitaxel, capecitabine, docetaxel, and carboplatin.

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

Given seemingly improved efficacy in ASCENT patients who had less prior treatment, would you consider use after only one prior agent rather than two? ...

Are there specific patient cohorts in whom you will more preferentially use sacituzumab govitecan? Can data from ASCENT be applied to patients with C...

To what degree do you factor in patient preference when choosing among available treatments? Are there features of each regimen that you emphasize in ...

The patient was started on chemoimmunotherapy 3 years ago. Recent scans show small treated brain metastases (s/p RT several years ago) and no disease ...

Patient with T2N1 disease and isolated liver metastases. Axilla and liver completely responded to chemo + IO, but limited residual breast enhancement ...

Given that olaparib was given within 12 weeks of completion of standard adjuvant therapy on the trial, will you still offer it to patients outside tha...

In patients who have completed all adjuvant therapy. Similar test to what is available for stage 2 and 3 colon cancer patients by Natera.

Presuming that imaging does not show distant metastatic disease, what would you offer? What about if the patient were PD-L1 negative?

Do you have any experience with intra-pericardial chemotherapy administration, and if so, in what cases?

Does tumor size impact your recommendation? High grade? Young patient age?

Would it affect your decision whether original primary tumor and treatment was hormone positive or negative?

Options: 1) ddAC-T- surgery- adjuvant capecitabine if residual disease 2) weekly taxol/carbo x 12 followed by dd AC x 4 3) Keynote 522- pembro/taxo...

Would you consider use of immunotherapy with checking PDL1? What chemotherapy agents would you consider along with mastectomy/radiation?

Is there any evidence for sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132) in this situation with progressive systemic disease after prior anthracycline and taxane?

Would you consider still immunotherapy even if aggressive disease vs single agent chemotherapy?

Does the SYSUCC-001 trial presented at ASCO 2020 change your practice?

Patient previously received neoadjuvant carboplatin, anthracycline and taxane regimen and is BRCA negative.

Does the results of the tnAcity trial influence your decision in choosing a 1st line option?

Why do the NCCN guidelines suggest using neoadjuvant therapy only for patients with T2 or greater tumors?

What are your thoughts with the new KEYNOTE-522 regimen? Would you just use carbo/paclitaxel/pembro part of the regimen or give as much doxorubicin as...

Are you using post-neoadjuvant Xeloda based on preliminary data from the CREATE-X trial? Does BRCA mutation influence your decision?

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

(For instance, TCx4 instead of ddAC->T for smaller tumors?)Does this affect your decision about treating with neoadjuvant versus adjuvant chemother...


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