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How would you approach adjuvant treatment for a premenopausal woman with a large, lymph node positive HR+, Her2 negative lobular breast cancer?

Analyses have showed questionable benefit with chemotherapy
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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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In pure or classical estrogen receptor positive lobular breast cancers neoadjuvant chemotherapy works very poorly (3% vs 15% pCR; Cristofanilli et al. J Clin Oncol 2005;23:41-8) and you are not likely to convert mastectomy to lumpectomy. I would strongly consider neoadjuvant endocrine therapy, espec...

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