Is there a role for adjuvant capecitabine in sequence with abemaciclib for high risk HR+ breast cancer with residual disease?
In high-risk, node-positive HR+ Her-2 neg breast cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with residual disease, would you give capecitabine over adjuvant abemaciclib or sequence the two?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
Several randomized trials and meta-analyses have failed to show the benefit of adding capecitabine in Neo-adjuvant or adjuvant setting, except for selected TNBC patients. GEICAM/2003-10 and FinXX are few of those well-conducted studies that explored the addition of capecitabine in early stage breast...