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Is there any role for additional chemotherapy for a pre-menopausal woman with locally advanced ER+, Her2- IDC, with residual disease after neoadjuvant AC?

Would you consider capecitabine in addition to paclitaxel?
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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
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Locally advanced higher risk disease should get both AC and a taxane in either the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting. So for ER+ disease I would give the taxane adjuvantly then move on to radiation and endocrine therapy in this case.

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Medical Oncology · Maricopa Integrated Health Svcs
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That there would be residual disease after Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is not a surprise due to the biology and the main strategy for long time cure and control is the endocrine therapy that follows.

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