Would you recommend adjuvant radiotherapy with concurrent Ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in your breast cancer patients?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In the Katherine trial (von Minckwitz et al. NEJM 2018) 1486 patients with non-metastatic invasive residual HER2+ breast cancer after preoperative chemotherapy were randomized to 14 cycles of trastuzumab or trastuzumab emtasine (T-DM1), an antibody-drug conjugate of trastuzumab and the cytotoxic age...
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Radiation Oncologist at The Toledo Clinic Everyone’s abuzz with the results of this trial,...
Radiation Oncologist at Bay Pines VAMC Radiation Dermatitis in patients treated with conc...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
My initial negative experiences with concomitant systemic therapy and breast radiotherapy were in the 1980's with adriamycin for locally advanced breast cancer. In hindsight, this paradigm (which did not persist for a long period) may have resulted from the negative blowback from the preceding well ...
Everyone’s abuzz with the results of this trial,...
Radiation Dermatitis in patients treated with conc...
On a similar note, one needs to monitor closely, a...