Dr. Judy Boughey on Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer

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Boughey says an ongoing national clinical trial is looking at patients with ER+ breast cancer and treating them with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy.

Judy Boughey, MD, associate professor of surgery, director, Breast Surgical Oncology Training Program, Mayo Clinic, discusses the coming usefulness of neoadjuvant endocrine therapy in breast cancer. Boughey says an ongoing national clinical trial is looking at patients with ER+ breast cancer and treating them with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. Researchers are taking biopsies several weeks into the study as well to monitor the proliferation rate of a patient's tumor.

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