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TAILORx: Most women with intermediate risk ER+ breast cancer can safely skip chemo


 

Women with HR-positive, HER2-negative, axillary node-negative early-stage breast cancer can skip adjuvant chemotherapy. Also today, maintenance chemotherapy is the first treatment advancement for rhabdomyosarcoma in 30 years for younger patients, a tumor analysis suggests testing all MSI-high patients for Lynch Syndrome, and for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, black men have a stronger response to abiraterone (Zytinga).

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