How do you counsel patients who inquire about response rates in metastatic breast cancer?

Topics: Breast Cancer • Medical Oncology

Do you tailor treatment to a goal response? Do you refer to data illustrating improved prognosis if the patient develops a CR or PR?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I typically explain what response rate, response duration and progression free survival means and make sure that patients are aware that the outcome of interest reported in clinical trial represents a mean value and that patients enrolled in the study had a range of responses, some were better than ...

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Medical Oncologist at NYU Winthrop Hospital
Breast Cancer is a heterogeneous disease. We have ...

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