How would you treat a patient with TNBC with a residual strongly PR+, ER- breast mass on mastectomy after neoadjuvant KEYNOTE 522 based chemoimmunotherapy?
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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
I would treat such a patient the same way that I would any patient with residual TNBC after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and pembrolizumab, which depends to some extent upon the patient's stage at diagnosis and the extent of residual disease at surgery - in patients with residual disease after neoadjuva...
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Medical Oncology · Mary Lanning Healthcare Morrison Cancer Center/University of Nebraska Medical Center Adjunct Faculty
Assuming that the original tissue biopsy was accurate as triple negative tumor, this may be a scenario with heterogenous tumor biology where initial biopsy sampling did not catch PR positivity, and following neoadjuvant therapy PR positive tumor clones remained as dominant residual disease. I would ...