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In which situations do you offer neoadjuvant chemotherapy for a nodal recurrence alone of ER/PR positive, HER2 negative breast cancer?

Patient is young and reoccurrence is one year after initial diagnosis of T1cN0 ER/PR positive, HER2-negative breast cancer treated with mastectomy, but no adjuvant radiation or systemic therapy.
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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic Rochester
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There is limited evidence to match this scenario on which to base the decision-making. On the one hand, this is a young woman who now has nodal disease. IF she had presented with this as her original diagnosis, the recommendation would have been for adjuvant chemotherapy followed by endocrine therap...

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