Gynecologic Cancers

NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question

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How does your approach to low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia differ for patients whose hCG levels plateau following initial single agent systemic therapy vs those who have a good initial response and then plateau?

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How would you proceed for a patient with metastatic gastric-type adenocarcinoma, with vaginal and inguinofemoral disease only, who experiences complete response to her vaginal tumor but residual inguinal disease?

History of CDH1 mutation and prophylactic gastrectomy in 2017 - no other primary site found beyond vagina at diagnosis. Vaginal tumor completely resp...

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How would you adjust therapy for a patient with high risk, stage III choriocarcinoma (lung mets) in the context of renal insufficiency (Cr 3.8)?

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After an optimal tertiary cytoreduction for recurrent granulosa cell tumor previously treated with BEP and hormonal therapy, would you recommend systemic chemotherapy?

Initial diagnosis was 15+ years ago

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How do positive pelvic washings influence your decision to administer adjuvant therapy to early stage endometrial cancer who otherwise meets no criteria for adjuvant therapy?

58 yo, grade 1 endometrioid endometrial cancer. TLH, BSO, sentinel nodes. Stage IA, focal LVSI, 20% myometrial invasion, negative sentinel nodes, posi...

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Are there circumstances where you would recommend every 6 week dosing schedule for pembrolizumab monotherapy?

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 ...

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Do you consider an ovarian cancer patient who progresses on PARP inhibitor, either for treatment or maintenance, to be platinum resistant regardless of time since last platinum based chemotherapy?

Does the exact time since last platinum-based chemotherapy change your answer?

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What adjuvant therapy do you recommend for comprehensively staged, Stage II, FIGO grade 3 deeply invasive endometrial cancer?

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Would you consider HRT after BSO in a pre-menopausal gBRCA2+ patient who has no intention of ever having prophylactic bilateral mastectomies and who declines chemoprophylaxis?

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How would you manage a patient with synchronous breast and ovarian cancer, s/p neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery for ER+/HER2- breast cancer and found to have an ER+ ovarian cancer nodal metastases at TAH/BSO?

RP node with treatment related changes and surgical specimen from TAH/BSO no other foci of malignancy found.

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Is it safe and/or necessary to combine osimertinib and carboplatin/paclixel for a patient with stage IV EGFR mutated NSCLC and advanced ovarian carcinoma?

Certainly ovarian cancer will respond to carboplatin and paclitaxel and it sounds like a reasonable chemotherapy to give to a stage IV NSCLC, however ...

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