Do you have a certain tumor size threshold in which you change chemotherapy recommendations for a small, triple negative breast cancer?

Breast cancer death from small tumors is often underestimated. In 2000, 0.92%, 4.0%, and 10.7% breast cancer-specific deaths were due to T1a, T1b, and T1c node-negative cancers, respectively, which increased significantly to 1.9%, 5.8%, and 14.7% by 2017. This is an interesting read on death from sm...

This is often a subject of heated debate at our breast cancer conference. I tend to favor sequential use of weekly paclitaxel after AC for patients with node-negative TNBC, even if the tumor size is small. Higher proportional benefit has been demonstrated for the addition of a taxane after AC for pa...

For tumors equal to or smaller than 0.5 cm if pN0 no adjuvant therapy, if pN1mi consider adjuvant chemotherapy. (NCCN Category 2A) In select patients with tumors equal to or smaller than 0.5 cm with high-risk features (e.g., young patients with high-grade histology), adjuvant chemotherapy may be con...

There is no such thing as "small" TNBC to the extent that you can take a chance that a curable patient in adjuvant setting may have been a "missed opportunity" when either A or T is not used. This may not apply to neoadjuvant where one can offer TC before surgery and if residual disease is seen in s...