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How would you approach a patient with a HER2+ locoregional recurrence who did not receive prior systemic therapy?

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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

For a patient with an isolated, small in-breast recurrence, I would consider this a marker of a higher risk of distant recurrence and would give systemic adjuvant therapy, but would limit treatment to weekly paclitaxel and trastuzumab, since this is less toxic than the more aggressive regimens and h...

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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida

If restaging was negative for mets, I would clip the recurrent mass and treat with neoadjuvant systemic therapy TCHP or ACTHP, resect, radiate, decide on adjuvant therapy w more HP or TDM1 +/- endocrine, as indicated based on response.

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