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When do you consider it too late after breast surgery to offer adjuvant chemotherapy to a patient with high risk non-metastatic breast cancer?

Is there a point at which there may be no benefit? More than 3 months from breast surgery? 6 months? 1 year?
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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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While we have evidence that it is beneficial to begin adjuvant chemotherapy soon after surgery, especially in younger patients with TNBC, we have no answers to the question of when it is 'too late' to start treatment. And while there are theoretical biologic advantages to starting treatment of possi...

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