How would you manage a left sided triple negative breast cancer with a concurrent left sided locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer?

The presentation of two primary cancers that carry serious prognoses is very challenging. There are many variables at play here that could alter the initial therapeutic approach and ongoing treatment. Assuming this patient has a reasonable KPS, PFTs, and can undergo surgery, one way to start is neoa...

This is a tough one to juggle as prolonging therapy for the TNBC could adversely affect the NSCLC or vice versa. If the patient is appropriate for it, I would attempt a platinum/taxane/aPD-1 for 4 cycles and assess response in the breast with MRI along with repeat imaging of chest. The most straight...

I would treat her according to the KEYNOTE-522 trial with carboplatin, taxane, and pembrolizumab. This would be excellent therapy for the breast cancer, and carboplatin/Taxol/immunotherapy would also be a standard regimen for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung (though typically an immunotherapeutic...

Agree, this is a tough case. Treating two separate histologies and two separate organs is very challenging. I am guessing that metastases have been ruled out in either case and we are treating two primaries at the same time. Given that both are aggressive pathologies, our goal is cure in this contex...