When do you treat oligometastatic triple negative breast cancer aggressively?
The patient only had disease involving the right breast and axillary, cervical, and supraclavicular lymph nodes. She had complete response to with ddAC -> T on PET scan. Can local treatment be used at these sites of disease?
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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
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This issue is complicated by the fact there is no standard definition for oligometastatic breast cancer. A study by Kobayashi et al. looked at a series of oligometastatic breast cancers defined as 1-2 organ sites involved with less than 5 metastases. Consolidative local therapy in chemo responsive p...
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