
Publication|Articles|June 17, 2025
Peers & Perspectives in Oncology
- June I 2025
- Volume 3
- Pages: 84
Roundtable Roundup: Adjuvant Therapy for HR+, HER2- Breast Cancer
Author(s)Targeted Oncology Staff
Fact checked by: Jonah Feldman
In separate, live virtual events, William J. Gradishar, MD; and Tiffany A. Traina, MD, discussed multiple scenarios for a patient with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer to potentially receive hormonal plus endocrine therapy.
CASE SUMMARY
- A 59-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with a newly discovered lump in her left breast and palpable axillary lymph node (ALN).
- Imaging identified an 8.1-cm solid mass in the lower inner quadrant with a suspicious ALN.
- Core biopsy: positive for invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), estrogen receptor, 80%; progesterone receptor, 30%; HER2 0 by immunohistochemistry; grade 2
- Fine-needle aspiration of ALN was positive for IDC.
- Germline testing was negative for deleterious mutations.
- Staging PET/CT was negative for distant metastasis.
- The patient received neoadjuvant doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel.
- She underwent bilateral mastectomy.
- Pathology (left breast): 5.1-cm IDC and 1/15 positive nodes
- Her 21-gene assay recurrence score: 24
- Anatomic stage: pT3 pN1a M0/stage IIIA




































