How should our selection for neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer change in light of COVID-19?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I believe that some patients with low risk hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative (patients with clinical stage T1a-b N0) and those with DCIS could be safely put on endocrine therapy in order to delay surgery to minimize the risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19. It is truly much more difficu...
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Medical Oncologist at Michigan State University Is there any role for genomic profiling for ER/PR ...
Medical Oncologist at Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University I believe that genomic profiling should be used to...
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
To date, the largest analysis of outcomes in cancer patients (Liang et al Lancet Oncology Feb 2020) only include 18 patients (of 1590) with a history of cancer. Of those, only 3 had breast cancer and 2 of these 3 had a distant history of 4 years or more. The cancer cohort in this analysis were noted...
Is there any role for genomic profiling for ER/PR ...
I believe that genomic profiling should be used to...