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How would you treat a patient with HR+,HER2- metastatic breast cancer with a gBRCA mutation who has progressed on endocrine therapy with a new pericardial effusion?
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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Assuming it is malignant pericardial effusion, and she has had "local therapies" such as pericardial window, if clinically indicated to prevent tamponade, then there two FDA-approved PARP inhibitors, talazoparib (Litton NEJM 2018) and olaparib (Robson NEJM 2017) for this setting. Both trials were of...
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Medical Oncology · St Mary Medical Center (Long Beach CA)