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How do you treat leptomeningeal disease in metastatic HR+ HER2- breast cancer?

The patient is treatment naïve and asymptomatic. She also has disease in the body (bone and liver metastases).
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Survival after a diagnosis of leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) remains poor. Radiation therapy remains a primary therapy for breast cancer LM. Intrathecal therapy has resulted in limited efficacy and is associated with significant toxicity. Limited data regarding the efficacy of systemic therapies in ...

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