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How would you manage adjuvant endocrine therapy for a postmenopausal patient with early stage HR+ breast CA who develops an ischemic CVA on an AI?
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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
This is a vexing problem that I myself have had to deal with. My patient developed a TIA on aromatase inhibitor (AI). Work up was negative for predisposing risk factors. The choice was easy in this case. This woman was told by her family friend, who was a doctor, that AIs cause stroke and she refuse...