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Do you use Oncotype to determine the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in a male patient with breast cancer?

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Medical Oncology · University of North Carolina

While there are fewer data, and no randomized data, what exists suggests that male breast cancer is comprised of a similar range of biologic entities, although the distributions may differ a little from female breast cancer. The question is timely; a recent JCO article (Massarweh et al, JCO 2018), e...

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Medical Oncology · Private Practice and Digital Health

The data we just published looks at Recurrence Score (RS) testing in both men and women up to 3+ nodes. It appears that RS is prognostic in both men and women with regards to 5-year BCSS, with excellent outcomes at 5 years in 0-30 scores, so both low and intermediate, and regardless of nodal status ...

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