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Does a very high Oncotype score influence your approach to adjuvant treatment in a patient with ER positive breast cancer?

For example, does a higher recurrence score influence your choice of TC versus AC-T? Or your choice to add ovarian suppression to a premenopausal patient?
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Medical Oncology · Private Practice and Digital Health
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This is a very intriguing question that has a simple answer. There is no data on choice or aggressiveness of chemotherapy and resulting benefit in patients with higher oncotype recurrence score. What regimen to use remains a judgement call, but for most patients with ER+/node negative tumors with a ...

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Medical Oncology · UT Southwestern Medical Center
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I agree with @Dr. First Last that Oncotype scores facilitate decisions about chemotherapy versus not but they do not inform us as to what regimen to choose. However, I often treat women with high recurrence scores with ddAC-T in the absence of data that we can forgo dose dense anthracycline administ...

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