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The left breast cancer is an ER-negative, PR-negative, HER2-negative cT2N0 invasive ductal carcinoma, while the left lung primary is a cT2N1 squamous ...

This has become standard practice at our institution for patients with a good performance status, with whole brain radiotherapy given after the comple...

Will the results of the recently published randomized comparison of proton beam therapy (PBT) vs. transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) change the wa...

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

Especially as the study was done before the adoption of total neoadjuvant therapy

Consider treatment of stage IVB cervical cancer with systemic therapy and local pelvic radiation therapy as in Perkins et al., PMID 31810653.

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

Would non-gastric GISTs, high mitotic rate, large size, and young age of patient affect your decision? Especially knowing that TKIs suppress cell grow...

How do the results affect your recommendations for workup and management?

How do you decide when to “pull the trigger” in these cases where the growth trajectory is slow?

Is there a potential role for concurrent radiation therapy? What if the tumor is BRAF mutated?

Is there any data to support the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors either preoperatively or even definitively, similar to rectal or gastric?

Is it necessary to delay the start of radiation therapy for males planning on sperm banking for fertility preservation?

Do you consider "bridging" therapy prior to transplant, and if so, what are your thoughts on the intensity of the chemotherapy?  

Since there is no overlap between chemo regimens for these cancers, how would you sequence treatment? 

Such as in a patient with essential thrombocythemia with a CALR mutation, younger than age 60, no history of thrombosis, no bleeding or vasomotor symp...

How frequently and what type of testing/sample are you performing MRD assessment? Does your approach differ between transplant-eligible and transplan...

My understanding is that if someone isn’t medically operable, the default is to offer systemic therapy palliatively because breast cancer is tho...

Is there any role for targeted therapy, or would you consider consolidation durvalumab for these patients? 

For a node positive, triple negative patient that underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by breast conservation with a complete pathologic respon...

Are you more inclined to use non cytotoxic regimens such as R2 or PI3K inhibitors?

What systemic therapy is most appropriate, how would you sequence, and what RT dose fractionation would you use?

Considering this is stage IV disease, do your recommendations for definitive or adjuvant treatment (after surgery) change?

What clinical or radiographic factors would lean you in either direction - ie. time since index diagnosis, distribution or appearance of lung and noda...

While I am encouraged by the results of the LUMINA trial with respect to identifying patients who are less likely to benefit from radiation therapy wh...

Assuming the patient had no prior radiation and has no evidence of metastatic disease, would you start with adjuvant radiotherapy or adjuvant systemic...

Are there any circumstances where use of T-DXd would supercede the use of CDK4/6 inhibitors or other non-chemotherapeutic options (PIK3CA etc?)

24 months ADT + abiraterone + definitive RT is indicated for cN1 disease but not for pN1 disease per NCCN. Can the data be extrapolated to this popula...

Notably, the patient presented with renal failure due to ureteral obstruction and hydronephrosis, receives hemodialysis, and has limited systemic opti...

Do you utilize rituximab or any other specific management strategies?

Which group of patients will benefit with observation versus adjuvant immunotherapy?

What XRT dose do you use? Does the location of the disease (e.g., mediastinum) affect your decision when taking toxicity into account? would you offer...

Garcia-Manero et al., PMID 32285126Given the convenience of oral therapy, would you depend on the patient's ability to safely comply with the schedule...

Would a negative NGS eliminate the possibility of MDS? Is bone marrow biopsy indicated in a patient with pancytopenia with a negative NGS panel?

Do you insist on ambulatory/home blood pressures to rule in/out white coat hypertension? Does your practice have a system to log patients' BPs to supp...

Would you prefer CAR-T or bi-specific or neither? If CAR-T, how do you approach lymphodepletion? 

Is there any data on the efficacy of T-Dxd after progression on sacituzumab govitecan? Does your approach differ by hormone receptor status now that ...

If NGS was positive would you treat with HER2 directed therapy? How, if at all, would you incorporate T-DXd into this treatment paradigm?

For example, initial imaging shows numerous bilateral nodal mets extending into the low neck but after induction gem/cis, originally involved nodes ar...

Exploratory analysis of the MAGIC trial suggested perioperative chemotherapy was detrimental in this subset of patients. Has availability of IO altere...

Pretreatment PSA 25.3 with Gleason 4+3=7 and MRI suspicious for ECE. Eight months after pelvic nodal and prostate XRT to 79 Gy, PSA is 5.02 (down from...

And is it different when using pembrolizumab or a combination of ipilimumab/nivolumab?

Several patients with inability to access oral cyclophosphamide or lenalidomide, have attempted assistance and grants to no avail.

Is this an artifact of what agent prior clinical trials used or something to do with the mechanism of action (i.e., less mineralocorticoid effect of d...

Example: in a patient with a non-resectable pelvic mass involving the vagina but without evidence of distant disease, would you favor pelvic RT (as on...

MRI pelvis shows a 3.5 cm primary that appears infiltrative and without clear parametrial extension on MRI. Staging PET negative.  Is there any ...

Given recent retrospective study showing potential lack of benefit with bortezomib-based maintenance therapy (Bumma et al., PMID 37021929).High-risk a...

Which PI and at what dosing intervals? Dexamethasone or not? Emory has now published data with VRd consolidation as well as KPd consolidation, while ...

Does the patient's MMR status affect your opinions? What is/are your current preferred second-line regimen(s)? 

Such as the case in which a patient is unresponsive to steroids, IVIG, TPO-agonist, rituximab, splenectomy, and even fostamitinib.

Do next generation sequencing results influence diagnostic and therapeutic decisions for patients with MDS?

Do you ever considering bridging with chemotherapy, and if so for how long? 

Would you only give three cycles with radiation, or are you adding two more cycles of FOLFOX afterwards?

Do you re-challenge them? If so, what pre-medications do you give? Do you dose reduce the cytarabine? Or do you switch another regimen?

Would you consider low dose indefinite anticoagulation in any scenario? Any difference in approach between hematological malignancy and solid tum...

In patients with no apparent skin involvement but lymph-node showing basal cell carcinoma with extracapsular extension. Would this warrant radiation o...

A recent NCBD analysis (Rusthoven et al., PMID 27325855) suggests that the addition of prostate RT significantly improves survival compared to AD...

Imaging of breast and systemic imaging is all negative. Would you give adjuvant radiation and Her2 based therapy like any other Her2 + breast cancer?

Specifically if metastatic risk estimate approached the failure rate in control arm of STAMPEDE for high-risk non-metastatic disease (69% MFS at 6 yea...

Given the crossover that occurred in the various clinical trials and the potential for prolonged disease duration, how do you integrate OS, PFS, treat...

There was a recall on viscous lidocaine and many of our patients cannot find it. What would you recommend as alternatives?

Do you use the same high risk factors as adenocarcinoma when deciding on adjuvant treatment for early stage disease?

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

Patient initially achieved CR with VAC-IE with resolution of presumed lung mets and 100% necrosis in LLE primary tumor on BKA. Then was NED again afte...

Please specify how your institution is allocating resources now or will be soon.

Majority of patients on the seminal trial (Gross et al., PMID 36094839) had tumors isolated to head & neck, what was the rationale for this?

What role, if any, does molecular testing play in diagnosis and management in the absence of available clinical trials?

Do you base your decision on extent of residual disease?  Does the use of (neo)adjuvant immunotherapy have an impact on surgical site size or he...

If so, would you do bone marrow biopsy or send for NGS panel in blood to look for high risk mutations? NCCN lists this as the risk criteria. 

(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? 

What is your approach to try to persuade her that photons would be a better option?

IMPower110 data add further support to use of checkpoint monotherapy; however guidelines continue to support either I/O monotherapy vs chemo-immunothe...

Based on GI regimen or urothelial carcinoma regimens?

Are you waiting until drug availability or changing to a preferred non-cisplatin radiosensitizer? If you're utilizing an alternative to cisplatin, wha...

Would you biopsy lymph node to confirm recurrence/histology?  If confirmed, how do you decide between RT vs chemotherapy? If chemo - BEP x3 vs E...

Is there a minimum standard for which stations to sample? Does lymph node size affect your recommendations?

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

Assuming there is clear laboratory and/or imaging evidence of disease progression, and assuming FISH data is already available from a prior biopsy, do...

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?

Are there any instances where you would prefer a biosimilar rather than the reference product? 

Patient with stable disease on maintenance therapy with lenalidomide and dexamethasone

If you do not use the PORTEC-3 regimen for p53 mutated IA endometrial cancer, what specific protocol or combination of chemotherapy and radiation ther...

What would you recommend for a patient in their 60s with stage IB grade 1 endometrial cancer without LVSI? How would this differ for a patient with st...

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...

> 30s, female with metastatic colon cancer. Presented with a headache. Metastatic hemorrhagic mets per MRI 10/2022. Had radiation. Kras mutated, Br...

Assume the patient is not a candidate for surgery. What dose would you use? Would you recommend a lower dose to not damage the patient's kidney functi...

Do you wait to monitor response to empiric corticosteroids before pursuing a kidney biopsy?

If the patient received <2 months of immunotherapy, would you continue immunotherapy alone or transition to enfortumab monotherapy or EV+Pembro?

How would it change your risk group or management? Does Decipher help further inform treatment?

The surgeons at our institution are asking for repeat markers but I am not aware of any data or guidelines to support this. 

How do you take into account pathologic factors like %clear cell histology, myometrial invasion, and LVSI?  

Given the published results of the PRODIGE 23 trial where FOLFORINOX was used neoadjuvantly with FOLFOX post-op

240-300 mg/m2 prior exposure. How would your management change in young fit/older individuals with comorbidities? Would you obtain interval TTE during...

What imaging modality do you use (conventional, PSMA PET, etc.)? When do you image (ex: a PSA threshold or PSADT)?

Lately I have seen patients with a concurrent gynecologic (requiring chemoRT), head and neck (requiring surgery), and early stage NSCLC (requiring SBR...

In a patient with no evidence of bleeding, do you use a platelet cutoff? Do you utilize genomic testing (eg CALR, MPL, JAK2, etc.) to decide on cytore...

Are there scenarios in which you would proceed with checkpoint inhibitor for PDL1+ disease before having full molecular testing results?

Dose-escalation RT trials have had mixed results in the past for advanced rectal cancer, while in the early rectal stage there is a tendency towards a...

How do you weigh definitive chemoRT vs minimally invasive surgical approach with neoadjuvant chemo followed by transanal excision, in light of results...

Would sidedness matter? Do you use ctDNA assays to evaluate for acquired RAS mutations to guide this decision?

Would you give a trial of IST first or immediately refer for SCT if the patient has matched siblings?

CheckMate 511 trial showed reduced toxicity with flipped dosing of Ipilimumab+Nivolumab with similar progression free survival.

Do you worry about their marrow reserve and response to neulasta in terms of lymphocytosis and decreased ANC response?

Would you advocate for a targeted gene approach or a fully comprehensive NGS panel?

Would your recommendation change in a patient having pain from disease and you wanted a quick response?

How do you decide between starting infliximab, MMF, or IVIG? If a patient presents in respiratory failure (nearing or requiring intubation), woul...

How do you "have the talk" in a way that is straightforward without emotionally crushing the patient?

Is your approach different than that to a primary essential tremor?

E.g. loss of PMS2 expression by IHC only but MSI stable by PCR.

What would you want community oncologists to know when following these patients? Are there any other special issues to follow especially in AYA?

E.g. in a patient with tenuous cardiac function, would starting treatment several weeks earlier potentially improve outcomes?

The patient has also acquired mutations in BCR-ABL, namely p.Met244Val, (c.730A>G); 3.7%, which may confer resistance, and p.Phe359Cys, (c.1076T>...

History of 4th ventricle choroid plexus papilloma s/p GTR, now with recurrent disease in the 4th ventricle and the left lateral ventricle (7 nodules i...

Would portal hypertensive gastropathy or colopathy sway you away from using it?

When would you use 5-fluorouracil instead of, or in addition to, cisplatin during chemoradiation? When, if ever, would you offer adjuvant hysterectomy...

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...

There is evidence that parents do not adequately understand the purpose of phase I pediatric cancer trials (Cousino et al., PMID 23071225). 

Is radiation effective in this case and if so, what dose would you use? Is there potential for perforation?

What clinical factors do you take into consideration? Would you recommend chemo-immunotherapy regimens for a fit patient who relapses at 6 mos post-t...

For example, concerning throbocytopenia or neutropenia during anal cancer treatment with concurrent mitomycin/5FU, or other pelvic malignancies treate...

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...

Do you consider any neoadjuvant therapy or proceed to surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and osimertinib? Does the type of mutation (ex a rare ...

If so, what platelet count threshold would you use? Would age impact your decision? Would you do a bone marrow to rule out primary MPD in adults if th...

What specific platforms do you use, individual biomarker/PD-L1 status vs NGS, tissue vs liquid or both? Must you wait for PD-L1 testing if mutation t...

Would you continue ibrutinib even if they are placed on anti-platelet therapy such as clopidogrel or ticagrelor? When do you switch to an altern...

Does your choice of agent differ, or are you more or less likely to offer maintenance than if the patient had multiple myeloma alone?

Ex. TP53, BRCA, T790M, or another? As of now, T790M mutation is one of the few de novo mutations found in treatment naïve patients that have been...

Do you incorporate PEG-asparaginase or brentuximab vedotin (for CD30-expressing malignant cells) into anthracycline-based induction regimens? Do you c...

Is there a preferred duration of ADT? Do you give abiraterone/prednisone or other novel hormone therapy? If doing radiation, would you just do SBRT t...

Specifically, would you consider either neoadjuvant or adjuvant immunotherapy in this setting, or only after recurrence?

This is a recently described entity with poor prognosis, so even with a CR after RCHOPx6 cycles, is your bias to push for ISRT due to EBV being poor p...

In your practice, what is the proportion of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy who are diagnosed with VTE? Does this differ from patients rec...

It is understood that the trial's experience was to keep on treatment indefinitely until progression or unacceptable toxicity. We are asking about rea...

Would your systemic therapy choice be more similar to treatment of ovarian carcinoma or soft tissue sarcoma?

Would you consider using an IO-based treatment or move on to TKI? Does the presence of sarcomatoid or rhabdoid features impact your approach?

Would you recommend standard definitive chemoradiation followed by adjuvant durvalumab? Would you treat pre- or post-systemic therapy volumes?

Are patients with long standing malignant central airway obstruction poor candidates for central airway stents? What is considered to be an acceptable...

Given the substantial risks associated with transporting an intubated and ventilated patient to Radiation Oncology, is there any evidence to support t...

Given that pembrolizumab/trastuzumab with chemotherapy is new SOC for metastatic disease, how would you approach those with recent fluoropyrimidine + ...

And, for additional information, what are the differences in 5 year survival and disease specific survival for stage I NSCCA between lobectomy vs SBRT...

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

If the patient had PSC and baseline atrophy preventing brachytherapy boost (received SBRT boost instead), would this change your threshold for stentin...

For patients not on study, would you consider replacing missed doses of peg with a non-asparaginase based chemotherapy?

There are conflicting reports whether it contributes to renal insufficiency. If you do switch, what is your preferred TKI in this scenario?

Since both pregnancy and cancer are risk factors for VTE, is there data to guide when or if we should prophylactically anticoagulate? If so, what shou...

Are there specific patient populations in which you may feel comfortable with a patient selecting only one adjuvant therapy approach (tamoxifen vs RT)...

Patients with deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) and microsatellite instability high (MSI-H) harbor high tumor mutational burden which tends to have fav...

Margins are negative (closest 4mm), grade 2, 3 of 23 lymph nodes positive with no extranodal extension. What is your preferred chemotherapy approach a...

The patient presented with spinal cord compression, had subtotal resection and instrumentation with metallic hardware. Main concern is that post op su...

Is there a subset of patients for which you consider one regimen over the other (i.e. AC-THP v.TCHP)? If using an anthracycline regimen, do you u...

Given the recent update from the NAPOLI-3 trial presented at GI ASCO 2023, the two regimens appear to have similar OS.

With studies showing non inferiority to zoledronic acid q 3 months in support of bone metastatic disease, would you consider extrapolating this data a...

Are there any protocols in place? Aside from telling patients to use ice packs or bags or immerse hands/feet in ice water baths from 15" before to 15"...

Patients with gastric cancer can acquire new targetable mutations on progression. This could aid in additional treatment options in this group which t...

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...

The prior recommendations were between 6-12 months, but also were based on chemotherapy after surgery. 

Would you treat this as a locally advanced breast cancer and offer surgery, radiation, and systemic therapy? Does your management change depending on ...

Does your treatment approach differ from Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia? Does the presence/absence of a MYD88 L265P and/or CXCR4 mutation change you...

In a woman with high-grade, clinically node positive invasive ductal carcinoma who receives neoadjuvant chemotherapy and breast conserving surgery, wo...

Is there data on efficacy or toxicity when chemotherapy is added to Proton beam therapy for head and neck cancer like there is data to support adding ...

If tolerated through Cycle #1, how aggressively do you try to titrate the selinexor dose up toward 100mg weekly or 80mg twice-weekly? And does your a...

If so, how long do you continue medication and when do you discontinue? Does treatment with surgical resection versus radiation alone change your man...

What other molecular tests do you routinely order on such tumors?

How do you generally think about sequencing treatment among available options? Would your choice be affected by a patient's eligibility for transplan...

According to the NCCN guidelines, there is a highly selected group of T4a glottic larynx patients that can undergo observation instead of postoperativ...

Encouraging aggressive PO intake in patients with swallowing dysfunction may place them at risk for aspiration pneumonia, especially risky if undergoi...

Do you have a certain immunoglobulin level which you would use to determine this?

NCCN discusses targeted therapies (Everolimus) but also Temodar / Xeloda combination.

If so, what dose-fractionation regimen do you utilize? What are your target volumes?

If a patient with endometrial stromal sarcoma managed with fulverstrant has a single oligoprogressive lung nodule, is there any contraindication to tr...

How is your approach different from or similar to those who undergo surgical menopause? 

Is there an optimal chemotherapy regimen that optimizes cure rates while minimizing side effects?

Would you obtain baseline PFT on all patients or only selected high risk patients? Would you repeat PFTs regularly or only if clinically symptomatic?&...

Given strong TDXd efficacy in these patients is there a role to use it earlier than 2nd line? How does prior Her2-directed and/or taxane therapy...

What is your preferred dose/fractionation following a previous course of radiotherapy?

No evidence of distant disease elsewhere. Surgical resection is not possible. Would you recommend metastasis direct therapy to the liver (i.e. SBRT or...

What parameters/goals/targets do you use?  Do you treat PV, ET, and MF differently?

The patient had a prior right-sided ER+ HER2-ve breast cancer, treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, MRM with ALND, and PMRT They recently developed...

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 so, how do you incorporate GCSF into treatment of these patients?

If so, what assay would you use in this population? Do we have data on TMB/PDL1 status of long-term survivors?

In light of recent trials showing no difference in outcomes with RT+cetuximab vs RT+IO, does this potentially lead us to use immunotherapy in cisplati...

Are you waiting for BCG to become available or are you using other bridging therapies such as pembrolizumab?

Do you include pembrolizumab with platinum-taxane + bevacizumab or reserve it as a second line option?

I.E., can a patient with a questionable 5 mm node (MRI T2N1) which is negative on pathology after short course radiation be staged T2N0 and receive no...

In light of CheckMate 816 and IMpower010 and FDA approval for neoadjuvant chemo-nivolumab and adjuvant chemo-atezolizumab, how do you decide which sys...

NGS without any actionable mutations and PD-L1 TPS 15%. Would you offer chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy and, if so, in what order?

What is your preferred agent (DOAC, warfarin, enoxaparin), and is periprocedural bridging necessary?

What would you recommend within the first year after ATG and thereafter if still maintained on cyclosporine?

If considering systemic therapy, would you consider standard chemotherapy or use biomarker-directed therapy (e.g., imatinib if ckit+, larotrectinib/en...

Do you wait for radiographic progression? What is your preferred imaging modality for re-staging?

No actionable genetic alterations were identified for this patient. Would you consider FOLFOX + durva, or even single-agent durva?

Are there specific clinical factors, efficacy, or treatment tolerability issues that lead you to favor one agent over another? How do you compare or ...

How do you decide between downstaging chemotherapy or upfront concurrent chemoradiotherapy? Both are listed as NCCN options. 

How does your approach vary based on residual disease left at the time of surgery? Please specify your approach for the amount of residual disease at ...

For nodes just inferior to the celiac/SMA axis and no other distant metastatic disease? Stage is formally M1, but just barely. The patient is otherwis...

TOPAZ-1 trial allowed for up to 8 cycles of gem/cis. Were there differences in chemotherapy duration/# cycles between treatment groups? Does use of du...

For a patient, who has received SBRT & WBRT for CNS disease, is there a role of autoSCT and HD-chemo in this setting (no residual extra-CNS diseas...

No preop therapy; dMMR in poorly cohesive and mucinous carcinoma component, pMMR in tubular adenocarcinoma component

Current NCCN guidelines recommended not combining relugolix with these agents until more data is available.  Any drug interaction concerns or ot...

What contraindications or concerns do you have in this scenario beyond assessing the Child Pugh Score?

What VAF burden would be considered significant prognostically or for treatment decisions?

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?

What would be your next treatment for a young adult patient with medulloblastoma refractory to repeat resection, craniospinal irradiation, and initial...

There have been reports of pembrolizumab leading to lichen planus (my understanding is lichen planus pathophysiology unclear, but potentially autoimmu...

Can you use 50mg BID if intolerant to 150mg and 100mg 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...

C diff infection ruled out and CT abdomen pelvis shows diffuse enterocolitis extending far beyond the bowel-sparing IMRT radiotherapy field. 

How much weight do you give to a hgb/hct threshold versus symptoms?

General recommendations on dose and management presuming unresectable. 

Would surgical margins, evidence of angiolymphatic spread, number of lymph nodes removed during surgery inform your decision? 

Would the checkpoint inhibitor still work if blocking only that portion of the inflammatory cascade as opposed to more global blockade with steroids?

Some payors prefer leuprolide acetate injectable suspension (eligard) for ovarian suppression. This is not the preparation that was used in SOFT/Text ...

What is the risk of pregnancy loss in absence of anticoagulation? What would you suggest if the patient had anticoagulation in prior pregnancies and r...

If the patient has had prior prostate radiation and is not a surgical candidate, would you treat with systemic therapy alone? What is the natural his...

Confirmed no urothelial carcinoma and muscle in specimen without involvement. 

Is there a difference in efficacy if dose is given later point during the course of therapy?

Would you avoid combination with TKI given possible higher risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw?

Are there agents (eg. bendamustine) or modalities to avoid? Does washout times prior to collection vary between modalities?

Based on this review (Melamed and Lee, PMID 31998289), patients with MS on several DMTs may be at higher risk for certain cancers. How does this play ...

In what situations would you use a neuroendocrine chemotherapy regimen over carboplatin+paclitaxel?

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

How would you balance the OS benefit from TOPAZ-1 with the risks of immunotherapy in this or other high-risk populations?

Please specify your approach in elective and emergency surgical situations

Patient had estradiol level checked by her gynecologist due to recent irregular bleeding. Estradiol level was markedly elevated on initial testing (90...

Would you offer adjuvant atezolizumab, osimertinib, or neither? Both IMpower010 and ADAURA only had patients with EGFR exon 19 deletion or L858R mutat...

Patient is young. Bilirubin normalizes when tucatinib is held, but again increases to grade 2 when it is restarted. Evaluation for hemolysis was negat...

How do you sequence systemic treatment options for in patients with Child's Pugh B (or greater) in context of IMbrave150 and HIMALAYA? When do you in...

Are there factors which would make you more likely to use atezo/bev vs durva/treme vs TKI?

Is data sufficient to adopt this as the new standard of care? Can you comment on the reported regional and race-based variations in outcomes?  ...

Is there a role for using pembrolizumab alone in microsatellite stable endometrial cancer if patients are unable to tolerate lenvatinib?

E.g. a patient with monoclonal protein with mild light chain ratio elevation. Do we need to get a BM biopsy in all such patients?

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

Do you proceed with chemotherapy alone, neoadjuvant chemoRT, or definitive chemoRT? How do you communicate treatment intent to the patient?

Are there specific clinical or social scenarios that would preclude the use of this treatment?

In the KEYNOTE-775 study, what was the proportion of patients who had a recurrence free interval ≥1 year from platinum-based cytotoxic chemotherapy...

Are there any planned trials to compare lenvatinib + pembrolizumab and platinum-based cytotoxic chemotherapy for advanced or recurrent endometrial can...

Does your approach to the number of cycles vary based on plan to include radiation therapy or presence of certain histopathologic features?

Anecdotally, I have seen more serious IRAEs in patients I'm treating with this regimen than anticipated. Is there higher risk with this drug combinati...

Do the results of the unplanned subset analysis of the PACIFIC trial showing no OS benefit in this population lean you away from consolidation?

Would you use gem/docetaxel, anthracycline-based regimens or targeted therapies?

Would a negative dotatate PET change management for a patient for whom you were planning to start SSAs?

For example, portion is seen above and below the mesorectal fascia. Do you feel comfortable treating as colon cancer with surgery upfront?

Would you extrapolate from the DESTINY-CRC01 study, even though RAS/RAF mutations were excluded?

In this case, the patient had received daratumumab/lenalidomide/dexamethasone as part of a cooperative group trial. Would you say that the patient had...

Is there concern for increased toxicity from erdafitinib following avelumab similar to osimertinib toxicity following pembrolizumab in NSCLC? Does FGF...

Are there certain patient or disease related factors that would lead you to incorporate lenvatinib + pembrolizumab earlier?

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...

Does your answer change based on clinical or molecular risk factors, and if so how? Does your answer change if MRD status after induction is unknown?

Infection is not part of the criteria for starting treatment both in UpToDate and in NCCN guidelines. 

How do you determine whether to add intrathecal chemotherapy in patients with +CSF? Would your approach change for primary vs secondary CNS lymphoma?

Would you treat with ADT if no metastatic disease? Does absolute PSA (e.g. PSA<2) inform decision?

iPET2 and iPET4 showed Deauville 5 response. CT biopsy after 4 cycles was negative. Patient is currently scheduled for 2 additional cycles of ABVD.

For example, if the primary breast tumor was HER2 IHC 1+, but a metastatic site was HER2 IHC 0, would you still recommend using T-DXd? Will you chang...

If so, do you use it for all patients or only cisplatin doses >= 70 mg/m2? What dose of mannitol do you use?

Additional imaging of the potential lesions, biopsy or assume negative given normal PSMA PET/CT. 

Do you have a BMI threshold where you would convert to weight-based dosing over flat dosing? Are certain agents of more or less concern - PD-1, PD-L1,...

Ewing sarcoma of the right lung, status post bi-lobectomy and adjuvant VDC/IE, with recurrence 6 years in the right lung only. He has reached a cumula...

Patient with initially stage IIIC right sided colon cancer s/p resection found to have metastatic disease prior to starting adjuvant therapy. MSI-H an...

Only the mCRPC population was included in the Fizazi et al. study, but the FDA approval is for prevention of skeletal related events from any solid tu...

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

Is there evidence that T-DXd crosses the blood-brain barrier?

How do you assess if a patient may be a candidate for CAR-T cell therapy?

Prior studies have shown that there can be significant variation between grading pathologists as to which samples are defined as HER2 IHC +1 versus HE...

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...

Would you use a different endocrine therapy treatment? Would you use indicators other than Oncotype to guide the need for chemotherapy?

Do you routinely offer post-operative adjuvant radiation in addition to chemotherapy? Are the results of the recently published negative phase II...

When is this discussed? What are the common/less common toxicities you advise patients on? Are there best practices for coordination with referring on...

Given the results of ZUMA-7, TRANSFORM, and BELINDA - how does this inform your current practice? What are the currently approved indications for CAR-...

Or would you proceed with cabazitaxel or other therapy? Initial chemo-hormonal therapy was ADT + Docetaxel x6 cycles.Docetaxel rechallenge at time of ...

Do you find the ibPFS endpoint sufficient to change practice for any or all patients, or will you await OS or other data/trials?

Specifically, how do you consider T-DXd use in setting of other antibody-drug conjugates (e.g. sacituzumab vedotin)? Are there any special considerati...

- Dialysis catheter used for hemodialysis- RIJ thrombus in dialysis catheter was incidentally found- Patient asymptomatic with no prior history of VTE...

What factors do you use to decide between weekly low-dose carboplatin and paclitaxel combination vs cisplatin based doublet, and do you routinelt...

Do you prophylactically start all patients on B12, B-complex, and/or omega-3? If so, what dose? What about ice mittens and booties?

Are there specific patient factors for which you would more preferentially use this regimen?

If a patient has a painful breast lesion in the setting of rapidly progressing systemic disease treated with weekly taxol (60 mg/m2), would you feel c...

Given the FDA approvals for PARP inhibitors and combinations in mCRPC, when do you obtain NGS for mCRPC? Do you have a preferred assay?

Do you ever add prophylactic Keppra (levetiracetam) for glioblastoma patients without a seizure history based on data such as this study (nature.com) ...

Do you drop or adjust the temozolomide at any point, or rather continue to progression as long as temozolomide is well tolerated?

Did S1800a stratify by prior treatment response? Would you choose different 2L treatment for a patient who progresses rapidlly on pembro + platinum do...

Is there anything to differentiate the two agents? CNS penetration reportedly with adagrasib, FDA accelerated approval has been given with sotorasib.&...

How does the changing landscape of first-line treatment impact your decision making for second line therapy?

For example, in a patient on steroids for CNS or spinal metastases - would you use IO-IO vs IO-TKI or TKI monotherapy?

If yes, would you directly add olaparib at progression on abiraterone vs waiting to use abi/olaparib at a later line of therapy?

Would you offer adjuvant radiation? (Dose? Target?) vs Salvage? Would you add ADT? Would you add abiraterone? Would the number of lymph nodes involv...

- monarchE included <1% Stage IA and < 5% patients with no chemotherapy.Ex: 64 yo, ER/PR 95%, Ki67 20%, cT1c N0 but pT1c N1a at lumpectomy/SLN b...

For example, are you more likely to incorporate T-DXd earlier in sequence for 2+ vs 1+? Is there any justification to change our approach in HER2-zer...

What precautions can be taken to limit infestation of the department?   Do you implement a treatment delay and if so how do you decide when...

Does the safety profile impact your choice significantly? Does your first choice vary by disease histology?

Given the rarity of this diagnosis (5-7% of all AL amyloidosis cases), and the prognostic and clinical differences when compared to non IgM-AL am...

I've seen a handful of fatal radiation pneumonitis associated with rapid steroid tapers by the non-treating physicians. How do you recommend prescribi...

What would your approach be in a patient with a mid-esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with chemoradiation therapy followed by surgery, with P...

Secondary MF such as post-PV, for example. Do you apply the same prognostic scoring systems? 

My experience has been that patients can be neurologically devastated years out from WBRT. In Medical Oncology practice at my institution, we do not r...

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

We know the longer we expose patients to lenalidomide, the harder collection will be. Would you collect now or switch to an alternative regimen to ach...

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice...

Would you consider the BEACON regimen (i.e., encorafenib/binimetinib + cetuximab) in this setting?

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice...

Patient has ED unresponsive to cialis/viagra; would you recommend testosterone replacement therapy?

Which patients would you recommend active surveillance alone, a less morbid procedure such as enucleation, or a Whipple surgery? How does age influenc...

How does graft function play into your decision making? How do you utilize post allogeneic transplant chimerism in clinical practice? Do you obta...

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

Is there role for IVIG? Would you alter the dose or time course of steroid therapy?

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice?

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

How does the presence of specific mutations affect your adjuvant treatment planning or patient counseling? Given POLE mutation status can currently o...

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice?

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice?

If so, how many cycles would you give? Both the MAGIC and FLOT trials showed difficulty with administering adjuvant chemotherapy.

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

I recently saw a patient who had been treated with concurrent pembrolizumab-RT elsewhere. Is this an acceptable practice outside the setting of a clin...

How do you operationalize finding biomarker information in EHRs/testing portals, either for your own patients or if they have changed providers? If a...

Definitions for "high risk" differ by whether patients receive neoadjuvant chemo and across other contemporary studies. Does the change in AJCC stagin...

What if Medical Oncology wants to give more systemic therapy and further delay XRT start date?What should we be telling the Breast/Plastic surgeon/Med...

At what PSA would you become suspicious for biochemical recurrence and pursue restaging? Is there a threshold value? What imaging modality would you ...

NCCN states to consider adjuvant chemotherapy similar to muscle invasive bladder cancer in this scenario, but one would avert adjuvant chemotherapy in...

Would you give trastuzumab every 2 or 3 weeks, pembrolizumab every 3 or 6 weeks?

Would you use it for initial staging or at time of biochemical recurrence?

The FDA recently approved trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in the second line setting. Given the results of DESTINY-Breast03, what is now the role of TD...

In the setting of no personal or family history and no other risk factors for thrombosis, is systemic anticoagulation warranted if local treatments (e...

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

Would you consider gem+Abraxane to avoid FOLFIRINOX toxicity in a small, node-negative tumor?

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

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...

Given data from metastatic breast cancer trials that show benefit with continuing trastuzumab despite progression.

If radiation, what type? EBRT or brachytherapy? Any other techniques you would recommend, such as rectal balloon? 

In patients who continue to have insomnia despite diphenhydramine, benzos, and trazodone, are there other evidence based treatments that are helpful?

Given OlympiA trial with olaparib benefit for gBRCA+ patients?What are barriers that you foresee? In your practice who performs mutation testing and w...

Is there evidence or experience to support use of targeted therapy for KRAS G12C mutated NSCLC as first line in place of chemotherapy? 

Which regimen is preferred in second line for these patients? What is the efficacy of TDXd vs tucatinib in CNS metastases?    

The Intergroup 0162 trial did not demonstrate noninferiority, although OS difference only 5.1 vs. 5.8 yrs.  Would pattern of spread affect your d...

Residual GEJ mass and progression in local lymph nodes after carbo+taxol chemoRT without distant metastases.

What would you offer a premenopausal woman with clinical T2N1 ER positive breast cancer for adjuvant therapy after she achieves a pathologic complete ...

What do you do if LFTs are elevated after one dose of neoadjuvant TCHP (highest ALT >13 times upper limit of normal, normal bilirubin) with prior n...

I have a patient in her 60s with CHEK2 mutation, diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Lumpectomy showed b/l tumors <10mm both ER/PR+, HER2-, but...

Does this raise concerns about the efficacy of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibition? Are any preliminary results from AMBASSADOR (adjuvant pembrolizu...

Is it necessary to test CPS given the FDA approvals are not contingent on CPS %?  If you do test, do you check 28-8 (nivolumab), 22C3 (pembroliz...

Although grade 3 toxicity rates were low, ~10.5% experience some degree of ILD, are there strategies to reduce risk before treatment starts? Are ther...

Does a progressing kappa/lambda ratio > 100 at any point in time warrant treatment, or does one wait to treat patients in the setting of a slowly i...

Weekly (20 mg/m2 D1, D2) and q 3 wks (70 mg/m2 x 3c or 100 mg/m2 x 3c) regimens have all been listed as acceptable.  For reference, RTOG 97&...

Would you give neoadjuvant chemo or hormonal therapy or go with surgery first? What chemotherapy would you use? 

Assuming no overlap with prior RT doses, would a history of necrosis cause you to hypofractionate rather than deliver single fraction SRS?

Should these cancers be treated like hormone positive breast cancer or triple negative breast cancer? She is pre menopausal with cT1c grade 2 disease...

The forest plot from CheckMate 274 did not show a benefit for such patients? How would you select between adjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant nivoluma...

How are your teams effectively evaluating and counseling patients to ensure they are prepared for potential extended adjuvant treatment approaches? Is...

Does this change for PDL1 1-49% vs >50%? Will you be more likely to employ other checkpoint inhibitors before use of HER2 targeting therapy? Or sta...

VIP can be considered, but given complex psychosocial issues and limited community cancer treatment resources, this question is being asked. 

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? &...

Do you view CPS < 1% or 1-4% separately? Do you view the incremental benefit of adding immunotherapy still advantageous given relatively poor outco...

Do you go by FDA approval alone, or incorporate other data into your treatment decisions?  How do you view updated recent presentation of CM-649 ...

Would you use reduced dose chemoimmunotherapy, single agent chemotherapy, or single agent immunotherapy if the patient is unlikely to tolerate full do...

Would you consider boosting the nodes?  What dose?  Would this change your recommendation for length of ADT?  

Would you consider chemotherapy, androgen blockade or triple therapy (chemo and AR targeting)?

Patient has been on pembrolizumab and had two symptomatic soft tissue mass treated with radiation. 

How much of the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy do you expect to be due to ovarian function suppression due to the chemotherapy?

What is the impact among patients and providers? Has your documentation been adjusted now that patients can readily review?

Is dose modification of docetaxel necessary with Gilbert's when giving TCHP?

NCCN guidelines state check at baseline and then as clinically indicated. Some other sources state, can check prior to each cycle of BEP?  What ...

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

With conflicting data from the EORTC RCT and the Sarcoma meta-analysis collaboration, what factors determine when you would offer adjuvant chemotherap...

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

Peripheral blood flow shows prominent NK cell population but marrow aspiration/bx shows normocellular marrow with trilineage hematopoiesis. 

What combination of fluoropyrimidine, PD-1 inhibitor, or trastuzumab do you use?

Frailty Index per Palumbo et al. PMID 25628469Is it practical to apply in clinics? Have you made decision changes based on it?

In the absence of a VTE would you consider prophylaxis after a surgical procedure? Often non-hematologists order this testing but we are consulted for...

Would you restart hormonal therapy in a patient with a new diagnosis of LCIS 2 years after they have completed 5 yrs of AI for stage 1A IDC in the oth...

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

How would you modify therapy for a younger, fit patient versus an older, frail patient? Lesions in stomach, small intestine, colon resulting in bleed...

Does treatment with B-cell depletion and/or negative anti-spike antibody status despite COVID mRNA vaccination influence your decision?

Do you think adjuvant nivolumab should be the new standard of care based on current CM274 DFS data? If OS turns out to be no different, will you still...

NCCN lists PCV as category 1 (and now with analysis in Abstract 2002 from ASCO 2019 showing benefit in IDH mutated), and temozolomide as 2B, yet temoz...

HCG 850, AFP normal, LDH ~500 pre-orchiectomy.  If tumor thrombus, would you favor 4c of BEP? Would you try biopsy it? How common is IVC thrombu...

Are there contraindications to drugs like oxaliplatin or abraxane? Does chronicity or severity of the patient's underlying symptoms play a role in yo...

E.g. One NSCLC with N2 disease, and additional ipsilateral small nodule that is a biopsy-proven second primary. When do you consider SBRT to a nodule ...

Venetoclax has demonstrated efficacy in patients harboring t(11;14) mutations but is not FDA approved for MM. Can you expand on what situations you ma...

KEYNOTE 811 showed improved response rate with the addition of pembrolizumab, but very few patients in this study had low PDL1.

Given multidisciplinary discussion has occurred and SBRT has been agreed upon as local therapy, how do you approach the presence of moderate/significa...

Would you always offer an FGFR inhibitor as second line therapy in these patients instead of a second line chemotherapy regimen?

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...

Are you offering patients beta-emitters (Samarium-153 lexidronam, strontium-89) to any patients?

How does prior chemotherapy, site of disease, and pathological staging inform your decision? How about molecular markers (PD-L1, ctDNA)?

Is a 3 month delay too long in someone who had postoperative complications?

i.e. treatment-refractory PV, prior to progression to PMF or AML

Are there clinical features (post-op PSA, Decipher score, pN+, pT3, etc) that would inform your decision?

Assume normal cardiac function and no obvious co-morbidities. No anthracycline previously due to age alone. The patient’s BRCA status is unknown...

If an older patient is only fit enough for single agent fluoropyrimidine therapy, would you prefer to give this neoadjuvantly or adjuvantly?

Would you ever consider adjuvant chemotherapy rather than adjuvant immunotherapy after the publication of the CM-577 results? If so, in which pop...

For instance, the foci found were pN1mi (0.5 mm) deposit in 1st SNL (1/13 LN) and mpT1mi (8 foci). Would you consider single or dual anti-HER2 blockad...

Do you worry about false negatives on PET, CT, MRI if ADT is started before the scan? Scheduling scans can sometimes book 2-4 weeks out. 

Are the early results of CASSIOPEIA (Abst 8003) from ASCO 2019 practice changing? What about the GRIFFIN results in 2020?

Do you allow pre-RT treatment with the CDK 4/6i and hold during RT, vs. allow concurrent with breast/chest wall RT, vs. delay starting CDK 4/6i until ...

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice?

If a patient is asymptomatic at presentation, how do you incorporate local treatment options (RT/surgery) and when?

Do you modify the aspirin dose based off the lenalidomide dose? Do you ever use higher dose aspirin in lieu of an anticoagulant? The NCCN guidelines s...

How does cirrhosis and/or underlying thrombophilia affect your decision?

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

Would you consider neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment and if so, which therapies? Patient initially had pT2N0 disease and recurrent disease is also ER+...

Do you consider size > 2cm, visceral pleural invasion or vascular invasion as indications for cisplatin-based chemotherapy? 

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

Pathology details: 75% high grade large cell neuroendocrine tumor of the cecum (20-30 mitoses per 10 hpf, Ki67 75%) and 25% adenocarcinoma. Patient ha...

For medical oncologists, would you offer a PD-1/L1 inhibitor? For other subspecialties, how would you counsel the oncologist regarding the risk of usi...

In high-risk, node-positive HR+ Her-2 neg breast cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with residual disease, would you give capecitab...

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 ...

How do you manage low libido in women with breast cancer on endocrine therapy? Other than managing vaginal dryness/dyspareunia, if just a desire/libid...

Resected small bilateral tonsil SCC & base of tongue SCC. The patient received 6 cycles of BEP 30 years ago for testicular cancer, and suffers fr...

Conversion tables suggest starting the new drug with the next dose but do not seem to answer this question (i.e. if switching from rivaroxaban 20 mg d...

G1 neuropathy and G3 neutropenia were observed with cycle 12 FOLFOX + bev. Would you reintroduce oxali at a lower dose or switch to irinotecan+EGFRi ...

Has your practice changed based on the randomized, phase 3 study showing prophylactic gabapentin is not effective? Please share your thoughts and exp...

NCCN recommends perioperative FLOT or FOLFOX vs. neoadjuvant chemoRT with Carboplatin/Paclitaxel or FOLFOX.Does CM-577 and the approval of nivolumab p...

For example: shorten IMiD duration each cycle, add scheduled G-CSF, add antibacterial prophylaxis, etc.

Will degree of PD-L1 status impact your decision? Would you ever offer to stage IB patients as per study enrollment?  Do AJCC v8 staging guideli...

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+/...

If you had a patient with otherwise average risk stage 2 colon cancer but had signet ring or mucinous components to their pathology, would this sway y...

Of note - the tumor tissue biopsy NGS did not show KRAS or BRAF mutations. Microsatellite stable. Patient received first line FOLFOXIRI + Avastin .

For patients who have already undergone trimodality treatment, what time frame do you consider for adjuvant IO?

Do you observe, offer adjuvant pembrolizumab, or give a first-line metastatic regimen (IO/IO or IO/TKI)? Does your recommendation vary based on risk c...

Is there a certain time interval where you would feel comfortable to rechallenge with immunotherapy at recurrence (6m vs 1y vs 2y?) Does degree of PDL...

Are the experts convinced by DFS when the OS is immature?  How many in BSC arm went on to receive immunotherapy and was that adequate?

What would you do for a patient with a non-EGFR actionable mutation?IMpower010 included EGFR and ALK mutated NSCLC. Is there any concern in the use of...

In elderly patients (>70-75) with a good performance status, does the risk of neurocognitive decline outweigh the benefit of PCI?

CAR-T (any specific preference of product?) vs bispecific antibodies vs any other specific agents not previously utilized?

Given the POLARIX study data presented at ASH 2021, will this replace R-CHOP as the standard of care therapy in your practice? If not, how will y...

Do you initially start with systemic therapy alone or do you proceed directly to chemo-radiation? 

Is there a role of EBRT to the prostate with extended fields to cover the retroperitoneal nodes plus ADT (definitive therapy) or would you treat as ca...

This involves the primary site responding but progression with new bone marrow involvement with resulting cytopenias.

In light of updated monarchE trial data, it seems a SLNB would help delineate adjuvant treatment options in this population. However, Choosing Wisely ...

Grade 2 DCIS, post mastectomy with negative margins, sentinel nodes negative

This is in the setting of a patient who is now on ruxolitinib with rising leukocytosis and thrombocytosis, but cannot be on aspirin due to recent blee...

If the patient cannot tolerate methotrexate or further chemotherapy, how effective is radiation therapy (e.g. WBRT) in rendering the patient disease-f...

PSA rose from 25 to 30 ng/mL over 6 months on darolutamide for M0 CRPC, prompting scans which showed oligometastatic disease to bone, not amenable to ...

For stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART syndrome), does your management of these patient's change with recurrent episodes? How...

How do you weigh the various efficacy endpoints in the trials of novel combinations in ccRCC?  Are there specific clinical populations that you ...

Many of the patients on ASCENT trial were heavily pre-treated and require growth factors. With the day 1,8 treatment cycle, is there a way to minimize...

Do you worry about fluoropyrimidine resistance with concurrent chemoRT? Is there any role for neoadjuvant immunotherapy?

What is your approach to a patient who underwent surgery for what was thought to be a thymoma, but ended up being a pure seminoma? No disease elsewher...

After 3-4 cycles of RVD, would you automatically take the patient to transplant if he has achieved at least a partial response, or is there any benefi...

For example, for outpatients or resource-limited settings with a moderate probability 4-T score (but low clinical suspicion), would you ever consider ...

What clinical criteria would make you prefer TORS as the initial treatment approach?  

Are there other treatment variations by clinical subsets (eg tumor location, histology, stage II vs III, other biomarkers) seen in CM577 or other data...

BRCA mutant, ER/PR positive and HER2 positive T2N0M0 breast cancer diagnosed 5 years ago, treated with bilateral mastectomy, BSO, 1 year of adjuvant a...

CheckMate 577 only included patients with R0 resection.For R1 resections, guidelines suggest observation vs re-resection only.  

Would you offer indefinite anticoagulation if the event is unprovoked and the patient has low bleeding risk? 

Aside from addressing the underlying case, is there a role for phlebotomy in secondary polycythemia such as in COPD or post-renal transplant erythrocy...

How do you stage? Like nasopharynx or p16+ oropharynx? Do you treat it like npx ca with chemo xrt + adj chemo or like opx p16+ with definitive chemo ...

Please also discuss the type and duration of anticoagulation.

For patients with hormone negative breast cancer and HER2 positive only by copy number, do you give TDM1 for residual disease or capecitabine?

How are you thinking about sequencing therapies for these patients (IO vs chemo vs T-Dxd)? Are the data from DESTINY-Lung01 strong enough to warrant e...

Would you think differently about chemotherapy based on %teratoma or size of lymph nodes vs number of lymph nodes (eg. multiple small LN vs single 2-5...

Can patients be re-challenged after developing ILD? Is the toxicity seen with T-Dxd a potential barrier to use?  Do you feel the dosing used in...

Do you add on additional cycles of 5-FU/capecitabine to go beyond 3 months of treatment? Or would you stop at 3 months of therapy, dropping the oxalip...

What is your general rationale for selecting from available options?

If yes, do you recommend it be given concurrently with chemotherapy or sequentially? What is your target volume and dose?

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...

Would the etiology of HCC affect your decision, e.g. non-viral hepatitis since less benefit was shown for this group in IMbrave150?

Based on the SCORAD III trial, will you now be treating patients with spinal cord compression with single-fraction radiotherapy? Is there anyone ...

Or with other available IO/TKI combinations should this be strictly reserved for intermediate/high risk patients only?  If selecting IO/TKI, do ...

Would you use immunosuppression in patients several years after curative treatment for melanoma?

Also is there value in using voxelotor for the purpose of reducing hemolysis, and if so what parameters do you use to determine when to initiate voxel...

If any clinical benefit (ie. CR, PR or SD) would you consider switch maintenance avelumab, surveillance until progression, or an alternate regimen?

Molecular profiling revealed no targetable alterations, however tumor mutational burden was >10 mut/Mb.

Patient in mid-30s with no major medical history presented with isolated left neck swelling. Incisional biopsy w/ HTLV1/2 associated ATLL, Ki67 of >...

Do you select treatment based on toxicity profile since efficacy of regimens will likely never be directly compared? Are there QOL indices that can ...

Do you try to keep Hb> 10 or 12? Or somewhere in between? 

Patient has progression of liver metastases while on pembrolzumab/axitinib. ECOG PS 1 and limited comorbidities.

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

Is there a particular sequence you would adjust contributing antirejection or antimicrobial medications? Is the use of G-CSF appropriate and at what 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 ...

What would be your radiation volumes/dose and choice of chemotherapy?

Can you expand on this by sharing exactly what this routine workup should include? What additional tests outside of evaluating for POEMS and amyloidos...

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...

 If blood counts are sustained, do you continue or delay?

Do you treat with radiation therapy and what dose do you use? What dose do you accept to the duodenum?

Hydroxyurea is demonstrated to reduce complications and improve long-term outcomes in severe genotypes HbSS and sickle beta0 thalassemia. What clinica...

TNBC diagnosed in 2nd trimester. Neoadjuvant rx not given due to complicated pregnancy and went straight to surgery due to HR+ biopsy. Surgical pathol...

Lymph node is 4.5cm with no reported ECE. Does the size of the LN or presence or absence of ECE affect your decision?

Given that prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) has been shown to decrease the incidence of symptomatic brain metastases in patients with extensive ...

Do you routinely recommend any dietary changes or is the evidence not convincing?

Should patients with moderate penetrance pathogenic variants be managed similar to BRCA patients and consider risk reducing contralateral mastectomy?&...

Provoked or unprovoked VTE: Do you use D-Dimer (or even repeat imaging to reassess residual clot) in any capacity to guide anticoagulation duration? E...

Genes such as ATM, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C/D, BRIP1 seem to show some potential increased risk of ovarian cancer. Should these patients under prophylacti...

What about a higher penetrance PV such as PALB2? See JCO OGR 8/2021 by @Mark E. Robson discussing management of non-BRCA pathogenic va...

Would you prioritize the head and neck cancer or treat the lung cancer first with SBRT to take care of it first? How about if there is mediastinal inv...

GS 4+4. PSA low (1-2). CT and bone scan negative for lymphadenopathy or metastatic disease.  Prostate MRI pending. 

In a scenario where patient's other clinical/familial risk does not sufficiently qualify them? See JCO OGR 8/2021 by @Mark E. Robson discussing manag...

The recommended concurrent chemotherapy regimens (cisplatin/paclitaxel and cisplatin/FU) in NCCN are based on BID fractionation of radiation as in RTO...

Have you used anticoagulants other than coumadin? Or is that the only appropriate agent given monitoring is based on PT/INR?

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...

Does this data change your preferred first line treatment regimens when considering other options such as mAb combos, cytotoxic chemotherapy?

Is the non-inferiority margin of 1.429 sufficient, how was this selected? Is the open label (rather than blinded) study design of any concern? Is th...

Can experts comment on fungal pneumonia risk with individual BTK inhibitors as seen in ELEVATE-RR and whether this impacts their management decisions?

Do you feel comfortable with BTK inhibitors in these patients? In ELEVATE-RR patients on a/c were excluded, and rate of atrial fibrillation in the ac...

Can the ipsilateral supraclavicular field and bilateral hilar nodes still be limited stage? 

How would non-regional adenopathy change management? What about poor surgical candidacy?

Is the therapeutic purpose of the proteasome inhibitor to maximize total dosage per week or number of infusions per week?

Do you ever recheck JAK2/CALR/MPL/BCR-ABL? Would you recommend a bone marrow biopsy? Is cytoreductive therapy indicated?

Is there a role for aspirin or hydroxyurea? Do you perform phlebotomy, and if so, what goals?

Would you recommend surgery first or neoadjuvant therapy such as concurrent cisplatin/RT or another regimen?

The patient has extensive liver metastases and a high bilirubin. She has not received any prior systemic therapy in the metastatic setting. 

In the case of subtle single lineage dysplasia with normal cytogenetics, do you routinely perform NGS testing for CHIP-type clonal mutations? Do you ...

How do you balance the risk of an EGFR flare while holding osimertinib vs the risk of pneumonitis when continuing?

Did you change your practice given the SRE results in the control arm of EORTC 1333 at ASCO 2021? When using bisphosphonates or denosumab, what dosin...

Would radical prostatectomy and PLND suffice or would a cystectomy be warranted (even in the absence of bladder involvement) as well? 

Are two negative pleurocentesis' adequate to conclude that the patient does not have metastatic disease? Do you routinely recommend VATS and pleural b...

Colleagues in surgery have raised concerns about post radiation effects in the pelvis with the ordering of short course RT->chemo ->surgery.

If no direct invasion into prostate from bladder or urethra, is there any role for systemic therapy?

Do your recommendations differ between those who receive ABVD and escalated BEACOPP? Do you recommend consultation with fertility specialists for all...

Is there any role for denosumab? How do you counsel patients regarding the benefit of bisphosphonates on breast cancer outcomes?

Patient had an initial tumor response to TCHP, but still had significant residual disease present, including positive lymph nodes and residual breast ...

How do you decide between entrectinib or crizotinib? Since no head-to-head comparison, can real world datasets (such as Doebele et al) be used to comp...

While building a trusting patient-physician relationship, what therapies could be discussed that may be aligned with naturopathic medicine? (i.e. L-gl...

In a patient who would be otherwise fit for surgery +/- adjuvant RT, and the delay is caused by COVID-related OR staffing issues, what would be your a...

Does patient age effect your approach? Would you consider RPLND for any patients in light of the phase II SEMS trial presented at the 2021 ASCO GU Ca...

What determines duration of therapy in patients who achieve stable disease or no evidence of disease on imaging? Is there any role for radiation in t...

This question arises from a case of a patient with multifocal nodular melanoma with circumferential involvement of the perianal region.

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 ...

Would you get bone marrow biopsy periodically? Would your approach change based off specific age or platelet count?  

Do you prefer WBRT, IT chemo or targeted systemic therapy and what is your preference on the sequence of therapies?

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

Would there be any benefit to surgery in a healthy/good PS patient? There is so little data on pulmonary atypical carcinoid and radiation respons...

E.g. for a 7cm central NSCLC, would you offer 8 fx SBRT or ChemoRT? Patient is not a surgical candidate.

One example of this scenario would be a patient receiving consolidative durvalumab after chemoRT for stage III NSCLC who develops a new peripheral lun...

Would your treatment approach be similar for a patient with suboptimal performance status?

If yes would you delay initiation of antineoplastic therapy to allow time for the vaccine to start acting?