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Expert Perspectives on Optimizing Biomarker Testing in Advanced HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer

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Kelly E. McCann, MD, PhD,Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, FACP

A panel of experts give perspectives on optimizing biomarker testing in Advanced HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer.

Video content above is prompted by the following:

  • For a patient whose cancer has progressed, do you obtain a new biopsy or go back to the original sample? Why?
  • What biomarkers do you test for in advanced-stage breast cancer and when? Is there a need for NGS testing before first-line metastatic disease? (eg, BRCA, PIK3CA, PD-L1, NTRK, MSI-H/dMMR, TMB-H)
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