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Would you offer adjuvant chemotherapy for 1-3 node positive HR+, HER2 negative breast cancer with Mammaprint low risk to a young, pre-menopausal patient?

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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Until we have the results from the RxPONDER trial (which used Oncotype, not Mammaprint, but addresses this question more directly than MINDACT), we cannot rule out a potential benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in node-positive patients like these, and thus, I would offer it while saying that the be...

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Medical Oncology · Private Practice and Digital Health

I do not recommend chemotherapy for low biological risk ER+ breast cancer, including in 1-3+ lymph nodes.

In premenopausal women, one can make a case for chemotherapy for its indirect endocrine effect through ovarian ablation, but in this day and age, this is a crude way to achieve ovarian suppressi...

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