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In which scenarios do you use vaginal estrogen in patients with history of HR positive breast cancer?

Do you feel differently about using these in patients with a history of HR-negative breast cancer?

Would you consider giving hormone replacement therapy to a patient with atypical ductal hyperplasia with no alternative options to manage postmenopausal symptoms?

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Do you have recommendations after prostate RT for patients who want to conceive?

Patients in their later 40s with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer s/p 7000cGy/28 EBRT only.

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What are your recommendations regarding sexual activity for a couple when one of them is diagnosed with a HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer?

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For a patient obtaining significant benefit and no side effects from pentoxifylline/Vitamin E for radiation-induced vulvovaginal fibrosis, do you continue treatment longer than 6-7 months or discontinue?

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How do you approach hormone replacement therapy for premenopausal patients following pelvic radiation therapy?

How is your approach different from or similar to those who undergo surgical menopause?

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What guidance do you give to patients and families regarding resuming vaccination after completion of chemotherapy?

Are there specific vaccines you recommend repeating, or do you recommend a catch-up schedule?

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What strategies have you found to be most effective in engaging PCPs in a primary-care or shared-care model of survivorship for pediatric and AYA patients who will receive ongoing care in their communities away from their primary oncology treatment site?

In follow up to @Jacqueline Casillas presentation at ASCO 2021 regarding models of survivorship care delivery for AYA patients.

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Are you recommending aspirin in breast cancer survivors?

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Papers discussed in this category

Curr Oncol Rep,

Role of Aspirin in Breast Cancer Survival.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2014-08-10

Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in HPV-positive patients with oropharyngeal cancer and their partners.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2006-02-01

Randomized double-blind trial of estrogen replacement therapy versus placebo in stage I or II endometrial cancer: a Gynecologic Oncology Group Study.

Obstet Gynecol, 1998 Oct

Meta-analysis of estrogen therapy in the management of urogenital atrophy in postmenopausal women: second report of the Hormones and Urogenital Therapy Committee.

Acta Oncol, 2019 Apr 08

Sex steroid hormone receptor expression in the vaginal wall in cervical cancer survivors after radiotherapy.

Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology, 2004

Does brachytherapy of the prostate affect sperm quality and/or fertility in younger men?

BJU international, 2005-10

New life after prostate brachytherapy? Considering the fertile female partner of the brachytherapy patient.

Andrologia, 2017-02

Successful sperm extraction and live birth after radiation, androgen deprivation and surgical castration for treatment of metastatic prostate cancer.

Current opinion in urology, 2007 Nov

Therapeutic testis biopsy for sperm retrieval.

JAMA,

Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials.

JAMA oncology, 2024 Jan 01

Vaginal Estrogen Therapy Use and Survival in Females With Breast Cancer.

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