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How would you approach adjuvant treatment of a locally advanced metaplastic breast cancer with squamous differentiation?

Would you choose a platinum based agent? Other chemotherapy combinations?
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Medical Oncology · Indiana University School of Medicine
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Hopefully, this patient has not yet gone to surgery, although the question suggests this is adjuvant therapy. Metaplastic breast cancer is typically relatively chemoresistant (although I have also had several patients with pCR to standard chemotherapy), with a high risk of hematogenous metastatic sp...

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