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Would you consider neoadjuvant endocrine therapy instead of chemotherapy for a pre-menopausal patient with a node-positive, ER+PR+, lobular breast cancer?
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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
You can consider neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NET) for classical strongly ER/PR expressing lobular cancers in certain cases where there is a desire to delay surgery or the patient is not a candidate for chemotherapy. Usually the duration of therapy is for around 6 months as long as the patient is ...