Breast Cancer, Metastatic   

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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 ...

The patient has extensive disease, and requires palliative radiation to the scapular area (proximal to the brachial plexus) in a region overlapping wi...

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...

Given the results of DESTINY-Breast03, and T-DXd's labeled indication in second-line, what is now the role of TDM1 in the treatment armamentarium of H...

Is there a role for loco-regional treatment in this scenario? If a young patient with ER/PR positive cT2N2M1 IDC presents with a single bone metastasi...

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...

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...

For example, a patient has had multiple dose reductions for neutropenia and required an admission for infection while on palbociclib. Would you switch...

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

Would you treat with 1st line ET + CDK4/6 inhibitor if the patient is only low or moderately ER positive? 

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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? 

Do you consider placing an Ommaya for IT chemo with methotrexate or cytarabine? Knowing that leptomeningeal carcinomatosis carries such...

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...

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


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