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What chemotherapeutic regimen would you use to treat locally recurrent TNBC?
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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Triple Negative Breast Cancers are sensitive to DNA-damaging agents so I would be inclined to use carbo/taxol or cisplatin/gemcitabine regimen. There are several points that I consider important to make"
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Mednet Member
Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hi Anthony
You are correct, in the absence germ mutation of BRCA gene olaparib will not be effective. Whereas if the tumor has a somatic mutation then the combination of carboplatin and a Parp inhibitor Is likely to be effective. I said this in my answer.
Cheers
Charlie Shapiro