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How would you manage a young patient with newly recurrent metastatic triple negative breast cancer less than a year after completing adjuvant chemotherapy and worsening liver function due to intrahepatic disease?

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Medical Oncology · H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida

Since she has a DFI less than 1 year from last taxane exposure, I would consider her taxane resistant. In general, I try to do carboplatin/gemcitabine, especially if the LFTs are abnormal. If her PDL1 is positive, you can try to add pembrolizumab similar to the KEYNOTE355 regimen. Following this oth...

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Medical Oncology · University of Hawai'i Cancer Center

The choice of the regimen depends on the extent of the abnormalities of LFT, and also there is a need for the speed of the timeframe of the LFT changes before one can decide the regimen. Nab-paclitaxel, vinca alkaloids, and eribulin will all need a dose adjustment if the LFT is going up. But it can ...

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