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How would you manage adjuvant treatment of a patient with ER+/PR+/HER2+ breast cancer and a small amount of residual disease (e.g. T1mi) following neoadjuvant TCHP?

Patient had a clinical T2N0 cancer at diagnosis, completed 6 cycles TCHP, and had 0.2mm residual disease with 80% cellularity, negative sentinel node.
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How would you manage HER2 directed therapy in a patient with ER/PR/HER2+ breast cancer with ypT1mic residual disease after neoadjuvant TCHP?

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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
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The benefit for TDM1 was seen in the subset analysis of KATHERINE patients with residual tumors under 1cm (including T1mic) HR .66 and about a 5% absolute risk reduction. So I agree with @Dr. First Last that switching to TDM1 should be discussed with the patient.

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Medical Oncology · Ohio State University
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This is a very tough question. The KATHERINE trial allowed patients with any residual disease following neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Based on analysis by Symmans et al., patients with HER2 positive breast cancer who had residual cancer burden (RCB) class I (minimal residual disease) had a 10-year even...

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Medical Oncology · Medical College of Wisconsin
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I agree with the responses above. In the KATHERINE trial, the benefit was seen with T-DM1 among ypT1a, ypT1b, and ypT1mic patients who consisted of at least 40-44% of the cohort (for the intervention and the control groups, suggesting the benefit across all groups). Given this data, one will be incl...

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Medical Oncology · RPCI Onc, PC
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Yes, for only microscopic residual disease, node-negative. We need more data in the future.

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