For patients receiving adjuvant trastuzumab for HER2+ positive breast cancer, if a patient misses a dose, do you make up that dose or stop at 1 year mark without making the dose up?
What factors influence your decision?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would typically make up the dose. My reasoning is that the goal of treatment is to increase probability of cure. We know from prior adjuvant trials that decreasing the relative dose intensity (defined as the dose delivered over time divided by the standard, protocol-defined dose of regimen o...
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Medical Oncologist While i agree that relative dose intensity especia...
Medical Oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine I agree with Dr Gluck.
Medical Oncologist at Mayo Clinic Rochester Agree with Dr Gluck -- it is hard to get excited a...
While i agree that relative dose intensity especia...
I agree with Dr Gluck.
Agree with Dr Gluck -- it is hard to get excited a...