How do you treat a female with a diagnosis of invasive apocrine carcinoma of the breast?
As expected triple negative.
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
While some data suggests that apocrine cancers may not respond as well to chemotherapy as ‘usual’ triple negative breast cancers, 80-90% are basal-like by gene expression analysis. I treat them the same way - with adjuvant chemotherapy for Stage I cancers (or Stage II-III patients who di...
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