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In the setting of COVID-19, would you perform a SLNB for a patient incidentally found to have microinvasive ER+ ILC in contralateral prophylactic mastectomy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for a locally advanced triple positive breast cancer?

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Medical Oncology · University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute
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I would not recommend SLN biopsy, independent of COVID-19.

This patient's prognosis is overwhelmingly dependent on the locally advanced triple negative breast cancer, not the microinvasive ER positive breast cancer. Acknowledging that the ER positive cancer may have been larger than microinvasive be...

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Medical Oncology · Newport Breast Care
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It won't change her course of treatment so I would not.

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