Medical Oncology

University of Iowa   

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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 ...

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

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)?

Would you consider genomic assays before neoadjuvant chemotherapy? How would you modify your treatment given the COVID-19 pandemic?

Being that this is a favorable histology would you use Oncotype Dx to help decide on neoadjuvant chemotherapy? Would you recommend neoadjuvant endocri...

Knowing that benefit of contralateral mastectomy is lower in older women who has already manifested BRCA related cancer and 10-20 % mastectomy related...

Given that DBA is associated with increased incidence of MDS, AML and other solid tumors, would this modify your treatment recommendations?

In a patient with who had undergone neoadjuvant TCH-P, lumpectomy, and RT and is currently on AI, pertuzumab, and trastuzumab, how do you think about ...


Papers discussed in this category


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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2018-06-01

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017-08-10

PLoS ONE, 2018 May 16

N Engl J Med, 2011 Oct 6

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019-08-01

N Engl J Med, 2015 Jan 8

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2007-07-15

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2004-12-01

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2013-07-01

Lancet Oncol., 2015-03-01

Ann. Surg. Oncol., 2013 Nov 23

Breast cancer research and treatment, 2017-08

The Lancet. Oncology, 2010-10

Breast Cancer Res. Treat.,

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2012-07-20

Annals of Oncology, 2021 Sep 29

J. Clin. Oncol., 2018-07-01

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2018-04-10

N. Engl. J. Med.,