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Would you consider adjuvant capecitabine in a premenopausal patient with HR-positive inflammatory breast cancer who had residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

Masuda et al., NEJM 2017
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Yes, I would consider adjuvant capecitabine for a patient with residual invasive disease after standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for HR+ inflammatory breast cancer. Given the uncertainties about the absolute benefit in recurrence and mortality in this specific situation, I would discuss this w...

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