Medical Oncology

Her2+   

Questions discussed in this category



The patient has extensive disease, and requires palliative radiation to the scapular area (proximal to the brachial plexus) in a region overlapping wi...

Although grade 3 toxicity rates were low, ~10.5% experience some degree of ILD, are there strategies to reduce risk before treatment starts? Are ther...

Given the results of DESTINY-Breast03, and T-DXd's labeled indication in second-line, what is now the role of TDM1 in the treatment armamentarium of H...

What data may support the routine escalation of endocrine therapy? Should HER2 therapy be prioritized instead?

If NGS was positive would you treat with HER2 directed therapy? How, if at all, would you incorporate T-DXd into this treatment paradigm?

What other molecular tests do you routinely order on such tumors?

Would you obtain baseline PFT on all patients or only selected high risk patients? Would you repeat PFTs regularly or only if clinically symptomatic?&...

Given strong TDXd efficacy in these patients is there a role to use it earlier than 2nd line? How does prior Her2-directed and/or taxane therapy...

If a patient previously received taxane-based chemotherapy for the initial cancer, is additional chemotherapy recommended or can HER2-directed and hor...

Patient is young. Bilirubin normalizes when tucatinib is held, but again increases to grade 2 when it is restarted. Evaluation for hemolysis was negat...

Patient was initially ER positive, HER2 positive. Currently she is on letrozole. Recurrence is ER/PR negative and HER2 positive and developed almost 2...

Given data from metastatic breast cancer trials that show benefit with continuing trastuzumab despite progression.

What do you do if LFTs are elevated after one dose of neoadjuvant TCHP (highest ALT >13 times upper limit of normal, normal bilirubin) with prior n...

Does this change for PDL1 1-49% vs >50%? Will you be more likely to employ other checkpoint inhibitors before use of HER2 targeting therapy? Or sta...

What combination of fluoropyrimidine, PD-1 inhibitor, or trastuzumab do you use?

KEYNOTE 811 showed improved response rate with the addition of pembrolizumab, but very few patients in this study had low PDL1.

Would you consider neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment and if so, which therapies? Patient initially had pT2N0 disease and recurrent disease is also ER+...

How are you thinking about sequencing therapies for these patients (IO vs chemo vs T-Dxd)? Are the data from DESTINY-Lung01 strong enough to warrant e...

Can patients be re-challenged after developing ILD? Is the toxicity seen with T-Dxd a potential barrier to use?  Do you feel the dosing used in...

The patient has extensive liver metastases and a high bilirubin. She has not received any prior systemic therapy in the metastatic setting. 

Patient had an initial tumor response to TCHP, but still had significant residual disease present, including positive lymph nodes and residual breast ...

<40y/o female w/ initial biopsy showing G3 IDC with 80% ER+, 90% PR+, and HER2 positive (IHC 2+; 1.6 HER2/CEP17 ratio and 6.3 HER2 copies/nucleus.)...

Would you choose to incorporate HER2-targeting agents, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, or a mix of these?

How would you approach additional systemic therapy? Would the clinical stage of the cancer affect your management?

Patient had a clinical T2N0 cancer at diagnosis, completed 6 cycles TCHP, and had 0.2mm residual disease with 80% cellularity, negative sentinel node.

2 populations of cells with 95% negative by FISH (ratio 1.07) and 5% positive by FISH (ratio 10)

How would your treatment change given pCR rates are reportedly much lower in triple positive patients?

Given the changing landscape of treatment, some patients may have already received capecitabine previously.  Would this impact your treatment rec...

Would you consider an anthracycline based substitution vs changing to nab-paclitaxel or a combination with platinum agent?

This patient underwent mastectomy and ALND (10/28 positive lymph nodes). Immediately following axillary LN dissection (and prior to radiation) imaging...

How would this change if the patient had metastatic HR+,HER2- breast cancer and now has symptomatic pancytopenia secondary to BM involvement after TCH...

The APT trial reported excellent DFS, OS and RFI for tumors <=3cm but few were smaller T2s (2-3 cm) and few were >70 years old.

It is included in favorable histologies on NCCN, but no mention of how to treat based off HER2 status.

How would you figure out how to treat someone with a prior localized HR+,HER2- breast cancer treated with adjuvant AC-T (5years ago) and a recent ipsi...

If yes, would you still recommend dual HER2 directed therapy? After the TRYPHAENA trial, neoadjuvant therapy with dual HER2 directed therapy has beco...

Neratinib was studied following adjuvant trastuzumab. Do you extrapolate that data to give neratinib to patients who have received adjuvant T-DM1 inst...

Patient defers chemotherapy. She is currently on anastrozole/Herceptin and perjeta with a response but it is suboptimal. I would like to add a CDK 4/6...

Clinical T1c patients were included in the KATHERINE trial that often are treated with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab

One such patient progressed through trastuzumab/pertuzumab/letrozole and TDM1 alone.  How would you combine ER+ approaches (eg CDK 4/6 inhibitor ...

The NEJM 2015 paper by Tolaney et al only included 1.5% of patients with micrometastases.

Would you do this for ER+ patients? According to the PERSEPHONE trial presented on ASCO 2018, in HER2+, non-metastatic breast cancer, 6 months Hercep...

Would you consider using CKD inhibitors upfront in triple positive breast cancer previously treated with chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and Hercepti...

Would you consider using ckd inhibitors in triple positive breast cancer previously treated with chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and Herceptin? NCCN ...

The FDA recently approved neratinib based on data from the ExteNET trial; however, benefit appears modest and the risk of toxicity is not low.

Do you ever consider de-escalating or stopping therapy in this situation? What is your approach to this conversation?


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