How are you planning to use Mammaprint for the management of locally advanced ER+ breast cancer at clinical high risk of recurrence based on size and up to 3 lymph nodes?
The results of the 70 gene panel Mammaprint in combination with Adjuvant! Online were published in NEJM recently. How will you incorporate this data into clinical practice?
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Medical Oncology · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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This is an interesting question. I am going to use Mammaprint in the adjuvant setting for patients with high risk of recurrence for tumors of any size and for 0-3 LN positive. These were the criteria used in the MINDACT study, and the 5 year distant DFS in these patients was 95% with endocrine thera...
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Medical Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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I agree with @Dr. First Last in principle, although I am still cautious in younger women, and more disease in the lymph node. I have not used it in HER2+ disease either, but I agree that there is a small proportion of ER+HER2+ patients where chemotherapy may not as beneficial. I argue that the HER2 ...
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