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Priyanka Sharma, MD, on Postoperative Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer: POTENT Trial

2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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Priyanka Sharma, MD, of the University of Kansas Medical Center, reviews new phase III data on adding oral fluoropyrimidine to adjuvant endocrine therapy, the current standard of care, in the setting of hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative primary breast cancer (Abstract GS1-09).



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