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How would you manage a patient with early stage ER+ HER2+ breast CA who cannot receive definitive local therapy due to severe cardiopulmonary co-morbidities?

How would your plan differ if the patient could eventually receive mastectomy once co-morbidities improve?
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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My management would depend on the nature of the severe cardiopulmonary co-morbidity and the clinical stage of the disease. For someone who is not a candidate for surgery (even with local axillary block, etc.), but does not have a cardiomyopathy, and is otherwise fit for systemic therapy (ECOG PS 0-2), then would consider systemic therapy using up front trastuzumab or trastuzumab/pertuzumab with taxane therapy-specific regimen tailored to clinical stage, or even trastuzumab/pertuzumab with endocrine therapy (as used in PERTAIN Trial [1]) followed by radiation could be considered (again, using radiation field or even partial breast irradiation that may be needed if pulmonary compromise). If trastuzumab is contraindicated even with medical car...

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