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Do you send OncotypeDx testing in breast cancers with mucinous histology?

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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida

I don't send Oncotype in pure mucinous tumors routinely. NCCN doesn't recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for node negative favorable histology tumors due to their good prognosis. Retrospective studies (Turashvilli et al., PMID 28702894, Wang et al., PMID 30619463) show the majority score low to interme...

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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic Rochester

The PlanB data suggested that Oncotype was rarely high in post-menopausal women with low grade, low Ki-67, strongly ER/PR positive tumors, which mucinous cancers often are! I would typically take into account the histology along with those other risk factors (e.g. Ki-67, grade, ER/PR status). If som...

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Medical Oncology · MD Anderson Cancer Center

Agree. Most mucinous tumors are low grade and strongly hormone positive, I typically do not send an Oncotype unless the patient has nodal involvement or mixed tumor.

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