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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"

1. If there an accessible metastatic site to biopsy, then biopsy it. It gives confirmation to th...

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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

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