How would you approach adjuvant treatment of a locally advanced metaplastic breast cancer with squamous differentiation?
Would you choose a platinum based agent? Other chemotherapy combinations?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Hopefully, this patient has not yet gone to surgery, although the question suggests this is adjuvant therapy. Metaplastic breast cancer is typically relatively chemoresistant (although I have also had several patients with pCR to standard chemotherapy), with a high risk of hematogenous metastatic sp...
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Medical Oncologist at Medical College of Wisconsin I agree with @Tarah Ballinger that metaplastic tum...
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I agree with @Tarah Ballinger that metaplastic tum...
I have been doing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for me...