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What Chemo Is Used For The Triple Negative?

I am high grade 3, stage 1, triple negative, node negative cancer. Second time , first cancer 5 years ago was er positive stage 1 , treated with mastectomy and aromatase inhibitors. What chemo is used for the triple negative? I am apprehensive.
Wed, 16 Sep 2015
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GOOD EVENING. You have developed a 2nd breast cancer which is triple negative. The usual chemotherapy is same for any other cancer subtype ( we dont use hormone and trastuzumab in it). However, triple negative tumors have high chances of recurring in first 3 years of life. It has been seen that platinum group of drugs if added to chemotherapy leads to a good response in triple negative tumors(though not finally approved and bigger scale studies ar goin on). We regularly add platinums to our patients of triple negative breast cancer and results are good. YOU can tell your doctor to use platinums in your case.(reference: geparsixto and calgb 40603 trials)
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What Chemo Is Used For The Triple Negative?

GOOD EVENING. You have developed a 2nd breast cancer which is triple negative. The usual chemotherapy is same for any other cancer subtype ( we dont use hormone and trastuzumab in it). However, triple negative tumors have high chances of recurring in first 3 years of life. It has been seen that platinum group of drugs if added to chemotherapy leads to a good response in triple negative tumors(though not finally approved and bigger scale studies ar goin on). We regularly add platinums to our patients of triple negative breast cancer and results are good. YOU can tell your doctor to use platinums in your case.(reference: geparsixto and calgb 40603 trials)