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The patient has a history of pelvic radiation and progressed through first line carboplatin/taxol. She has had a partial response to pembro/lenvatinib...
How do you "have the talk" in a way that is straightforward without emotionally crushing the patient?
Considering the treatment of platinum resistant ovarian cancer as done in the AURELIA trial (Pujade-Lauraine et al., PMID 24637997).
What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice?
...
How does the presence of specific mutations affect your adjuvant treatment planning or patient counseling?
Given data from metastatic breast cancer trials that show benefit with continuing trastuzumab despite progression.
Assuming minimal toxicities except fatigue from long, recurrent infusions.
Do you stop therapy at 2 years or continue until progression of disease?
What is the impact among patients and providers?
Has your documentation been adjusted now that patients can readily review?
Do you include pembrolizumab with platinum-taxane + bevacizumab or reserve it as a second line option?
How do you maintain a trusting relationship with your patients when this relapse occurs?
Assuming low risk of progression to AML and eligible for low-risk chemotherapies per hematologic/oncology.
Front-line PARP inhibitor maintenance therapy discontinued without progression.
How do you decide if it may be safe to continue immunotherapy?
And if the tumor is MSI-H, does that alter your thoughts?
Do you try to keep Hb> 10 or 12? Or somewhere in between?
Do you prophylactically start all patients on B12, B-complex, and/or omega-3? If so, what dose? What about ice mittens and booties?
Genes such as ATM, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C/D, BRIP1 seem to show some potential increased risk of ovarian cancer. Should these patients under prophylacti...
Do you allow patients with breast cancer on tamoxifen to use black cohosh?
If not, how often do you repeat pelvic imaging?
History of CDH1 mutation and prophylactic gastrectomy in 2017 - no other primary site found beyond vagina at diagnosis.
Vaginal tumor completely resp...
In follow up to @Jacqueline Casillas presentation at ASCO 2021 regarding models of survivorship care delivery for AYA patients.
How do you manage the initial event, including length of steroid taper and the role of pancreatic enzyme monitoring?
What is your experience of subse...
Previously received pelvic EBRT and intracavitary brachytherapy. IORT was administered to the node-positive side wall at the time of exenteration.
Initially treated with definitive chemoRT but recurred with distant mets. Completed 6 cycles carb/tax/bev with minimal toxicity. Excellent performance...
Lung is biopsy proven met cervix, SBRT is planned.
Patient did not previously receive para-aortic radiation. Considering RT vs RT + chemo vs chemo alone
Are there any effective non-pharm or pharm interventions?
Recurrence was 2cm and PET confirmed local. Excision with positive margins. Current plan for salvage whole pelvic RT and vaginal cuff brachytherapy +/...
s/p optimal debulking.
If this was an early-stage cancer would it change your adjuvant therapy recommendations?
If confirmed neuroendocrine and PD-L1 pending, how would you treat?
Recurrence picked up incidentally on CT. No germ line mutations, somatic tumor testing of node resulted negative.
PET confirmed isolated recurrence
What non-pharmacological interventions do you recommend? Do you routinely prescribe prophylactic laxatives to patients initiating opioids? How do you ...
Do you extrapolate from first line maintenance studies for duration of therapy?
Initial diagnosis was 15+ years ago
Does your practice vary based on risk status (low vs high risk) or specific mutation status (BRCA+ vs HRD+) given PAOLA subset analyses?
I am considering every 6 week pembrolizumab dosing in patients >70 years old in whom I want to reduce clinic visits for, especially in the context ...
What specific platforms for determining somatic BRCA and HRD status do you use for a patient who does not carry a germline BRCA mutation?
If yes, what type of testing platform would you use?
Are there clinical factors which help stratify? Does your practice vary based on mutation status (BRCA+ vs HRD+?)
How do the 5 year results of SOLO-1 at ESMO 2020 impact your recommendations?
How many cycles do you prefer before and after? How long do you tend to wait before starting radiation after initial chemo and after radiation to resu...
Is MDS/AML risk increased with longer duration of therapy?
Specifically, are there strategies you use to 1) empower patients to participate in decision-making and 2) reassure patients who may be skeptical?
Do you use specific tools or take into account certain factors when considering treatment options for older adults?
Patient has tolerated combination therapy well to date.
Given recent approval of niraparib (Zejula) for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or prima...
Patient is 34yo and G0 referred from surgical oncology. Laparoscopic specimens of myoma and what appeared to be adhesions were significant for maligna...
If patient meets high intermediate risk criteria, would you consider chemotherapy in addition to radiation?
Does not technically meet high intermediate risk criteria.
There are mixed recommendations about re-testing vs simply waiting for a quarantine period prior to resuming therapy.
Would you consider adjuvant chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, or surveillance?
After optimizing symptoms and reversible factors, and attempting cognitive-behavioral interventions and exercise, do you recommend pharmacologic agent...
This case involves an impressive ‘high volume’ vaginal recurrence and patient was not originally planned for adjuvant therapy. Concerned t...
Does residual grade 1-2 neuropathy from Taxol/ carbo 10 years ago affect your recommendation?
Ie for patients who are inoperable due to comorbidities?
Since no data exists or is pending, and the two disease processes are similar, should we consider PARP inhibition in this setting? This is assumi...
E.g. a patient with progression of their primary cancer but still is testing COVID19+ over a month after infection?
I care deeply about clinical trials but have always struggled on how to approach this topic. I would really appreciate tips from those of you who have...
This has been a common practice in the community. Is there a benefit for certain patients?
Can it be prevented? How do you evaluate patients? What non-pharmacologic or pharmacologic interventions do you use for treatment?
Obviously, patient and caregiver preferences are paramount. But, what factors do you consider? Does expanded hospice (e.g., Medicare Care Choices) inf...
How would you approach a patient who is receiving chemoRT but has confirmed COVID-19 with minor symptoms, as breaking treatment for 2 weeks quarantine...
When a physical exam is important and telehealth is not a good option, should we be proactive and reschedule or should we continue to see them as sche...
No adjuvant treatment was given upfront
SOLO1 trial studied stage 3/4 patients.
When, if ever, do you utilize adjuvant RT or chemotherapy?
RP node with treatment related changes and surgical specimen from TAH/BSO no other foci of malignancy found.
Would you be more or less likely to use a cisplatin-containing regimen if a patient had previously responded to chemoradiation with concurrent cisplat...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1813181
Does the phase II KN-158 provide sufficient evidence to change management?
Should this be done at the time of recurrence or after failure of 1st line therapy for recurrence?
The NCCN recommends either systemic therapy + brachytherapy or pelvic RT + brachy or brachy alone or observation. How do you decide among these option...
Given the recent press release regarding the update on the phase 3 soft tissue sarcoma study of LARTRUVO (olaratumab) showing no benefit to the combin...
Should this be the new standard of care based on the results from the recently published SOLO-1 trial?
Two new phase 2 studies this year with apatinib/oral etoposide (AEROC) and sorafenib/topotecan (TRIAS) were released, and NCCN also lists many single ...
Or do you wait for platinum resistance?
Certainly ovarian cancer will respond to carboplatin and paclitaxel and it sounds like a reasonable chemotherapy to give to a stage IV NSCLC, however ...
Is it reasonable to use single agent carboplatin for elderly patients?
In a patient who underwent laparoscopy for endometriosis and was found to have a 1mm focus of neuroendocrine tumor, would you recommend further surger...
She has metastatic disease beyond the pelvis (lungs).
Would you approach this situation as synchronous primaries (eg. FIGO IA in both) or as a locally advanced endometrial cancer (FIGO IIIA)?
What adjuva...
Would you add chemotherapy if there was gross residual disease, pN+ and/or ECE?
Can the classic indications for post-hysterectomy radiation (eg. "Sedlis" and "Peter's" criteria) be applied? Does the histology change radiation dose...
My patient’s family has asked that I don’t tell her that she has metastatic cancer because it will devastate her. I am planning on palliat...
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