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How do you approach systemic therapy for locoregional recurrence in a patient with triple negative breast cancer who has previously received anthracycline and taxane based chemotherapy?

Based on the CALOR trial (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24439313), adjuvant chemotherapy should be considered, but what regimen is preferred? Is there a role for platinum in this setting? Does BRCA status matter?
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Medical Oncology · Indiana University School of Medicine
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The CALOR trial took a pragmatic approach and randomized patients to systemic therapy or not. A specific regimen wasn't specified. If the patient has a known BRCA mutation, I would extrapolate from the first line metastatic setting and use a single agent platinum. Outside of that unique situation, there is really no data to support special/unique sensitivity for platinums. The trial closest to this situation would be the CreateX trial (residual disease after neoadjuvant therapy). Based on those ...

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