Medical Oncology

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Ampullary carcinoma is not in the NCCN guidelines. Please address not only the role for therapy but the optimal regimen (i.e. Gem based, vs mFOLFIRINO...

For a patient with high risk disease and a severe enough reaction that additional taxane-based therapy is contraindicated, do you consider alternate c...

Would you treat this as a locally advanced breast cancer and offer surgery, radiation, and systemic therapy? Does your management change depending on ...

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

Do you routinely offer post-operative adjuvant radiation in addition to chemotherapy? Are the results of the recently published negative phase II...

Patient underwent mastectomy for DCIS in the setting of previous lumpectomy and adjuvant radiation for the invasive breast cancer. 

Is there any role for denosumab? How do you counsel patients regarding the benefit of bisphosphonates on breast cancer outcomes?

I am considering every 6 week pembrolizumab dosing in patients >70 years old in whom I want to reduce clinic visits for, especially in the context ...

Is adjuvant radiation and/or adjuvant chemotherapy indicated? 

Should staging and treatment decisions be made based on imaging alone?

When would you favor delivering local therapy (e.g. SBRT) prior to systemic therapy?

These patients have been largely excluded from these trials.  What if the infection is well controlled?

Would you offer adjuvant TKI following ADAURA data?  Or proceed with durvalumab based on PACIFIC data?


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