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Would you offer adjuvant AC + pembrolizumab for a triple negative breast cancer patient whose tumor progressed on carboplatin + paclitaxel + pembrolizumab on KEYNOTE-522 and required urgent surgery (ypT3 ypN0)?

If not, would you lean towards adjuvant capecitabine?
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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida
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In these situations, adjuvant AC should be considered. Anthracyclines have been shown to improve outcomes in high-risk TNBC in the adjuvant setting across multiple trials. CREATE-X used adjuvant capecitabine in patients who had residual disease after neoadjuvant anthracyclines and taxanes. It wasn't...

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