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When would you use adjuvant abemaciclib in patients with clinically high-risk ER+, HER2-negative breast cancer, but pCR following neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

Patient is a post-menopausal woman with 4 lymph node mets that was strongly ER+/PR+, HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma with a high Ki-67 who achieved pCR to neoadjuvant AC+T
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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This patient would not have qualified for the monarchE adjuvant abemaciclib protocol, which used pathologic staging for lymph node status (although baseline imaging was allowed for tumor size determination in patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy) (1). This is in contrast, for example, to the ...

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