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How would you treat a young female with a recurrent triple negative breast cancer to the contralateral breast?

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Medical Oncology · Sarah Cannon Research Institute

I would imagine 3 years later in the contralateral breast that this would be a new primary. We would want to treat this as its own separate cancer.

I would avoid anthracycline as she has already received this but what specific chemotherapy I would pick depends on the tumor size and lymph node sta...

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Medical Oncology · Maricopa Integrated Health Svcs

How do you know it is recurrent and not a new De novo TNBC?Since TNBC spread is likely to be hematogenous ,three years later a lesion in the contralateral breast in absence of wide spread mets elsewhere has to be seen as a "new" cancer and all guidelines for a new TNBC apply.Unless you have molecula...

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