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Do you advocate for dose dense AC instead of every 3 week dosing in neoadjuvant TNBC as done in KEYNOTE 522?

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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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When giving neoadjuvant therapy for TNBC as given in the KEYNOTE-522 study, I prefer to administer dose dense AC (with growth factor support) + pembrolizumab (after completing weekly paclitaxel and carboplatin + pembrolizumab). While there has been no comparison of dose dense vs. q3week AC with this...

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Medical Oncology · University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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We utilize the regimen scheduled studied in KEYNOTE-522 with q3 week AC. Having given carbo/taxol-ddAC prior to the use of pembrolizumab, I find that the tolerance of AC chemotherapy and count recovery has been better with q3week schedule. Although prior studies have shown improvement of outcomes wi...

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