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How do you approach continuation versus cessation of systemic therapy for patients with stage IV triple negative breast cancer with a prolonged complete response to therapy and who are tolerating therapy well?

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Medical Oncology · Ohio State University

This is a difficult question to answer. Prior studies in metastatic breast cancer that tested chemotherapy holiday showed inferior survival as compared to maintaining or attenuating systemic therapy (examples: Coates et al., PMID 3683485; Stockler et al., Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2003; J...

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