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How do you approach adjuvant therapy in patients who have a poor clinical response to neoadjuvant endocrine therapy?

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Medical Oncology · Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Clinical response rates to neoadjuvant endocrine therapy vary from 40-60% in ER-enriched tumors. Pre and post-treatment PEPI score is shown to be prognostic. It is currently unknown what is best to do for women who do not respond well clinically, or for those who have a high ki67 and/or high PEPI sc...

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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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While there is little clinical trial experience to support this, I think that it is useful to differentiate between patients with indolent cancers that are unlikely to respond, clinically or pathologically, to either neoadjuvant endocrine therapy - even after 6 months of treatment - or neoadjuvant c...

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