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How would you treat triple negative breast cancer involving a pericardial effusion?
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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
If the patient has no tamponade at presentation I usually started standard systemic therapy with close monitoring by cardiology/CT surgery to do a pericardiocentesis followed by a pericardial window (percutaneous if possible) in the event hemodynamic changes occur. I have not done intrapericardial t...