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Triple-negative breast carcinoma is known for its aggressive profile and the lack of hormonal or HER2 therapeutic targets. This subtype of tumor is particularly challenging to treat, especially in elderly patients, where tolerance to standard therapeutic regimens may be reduced and multiple comorbidities further complicate clinical management. In this scenario, sacituzumab govitecan (SG) is revolutionizing the therapeutic pathway by offering a particularly active treatment, especially in advanced forms resistant to conventional therapies, with a manageable toxicity profile and reassuring data on efficacy even in case of dose reductions. In this clinical case, we describe the use of SG in a 71-year-old patient diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer histologically shifted from luminal B to triple negative, who had already received numerous and varied hormonal and chemotherapeutic treatment lines. Despite the need for dose reduction due to G3 diarrhea, after 16 months of therapy, the patient continues treatment with minimal impact on quality of life and maintaining stability after a partial response of the disease.

Cultura di Base is an experimental project realised in Torino between May and October 2022. Some General Practitioners' offices were moved to cultural places of the city, such as museums, libraries, cultural centers, with recognised quality in terms of space design and architecture. The assumption to be tested is that "intense architecture offices" can improve the experience of the visit and possibly strengthen the relationship between patient and doctor. Our counterfactual impact evaluation, based on a quasi-experimental control group design, evidences a significant positive impact both on the perceptions of waiting time and on the post-visit psychological well-being.

The clinical case presented refers to a woman suffering from metastatic breast cancer treated with sacituzumab govitecan (SG) who has a long progression-free survival. The case is characterized by the extreme aggressiveness of the neoplastic disease that relapses during adjuvant hormonal treatment with a metastatic disease that presents immunohistochemical characteristics different from the primary tumor. After first-line therapy with nabpaclitaxel and atezolizumab and the subsequent one with carboplatin and gemcitabine, both characterized by short PFS, the third line with SG is characterized by obtaining a complete response and a prolonged PFS as well as extreme tolerability that continues to this day after 15 months of treatment.

Advanced triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents a challenging clinical condition with limited therapeutics opportunities. However, recently, a new antibody drug conjugated, sacituzumab govitecan, demonstrated a relevant clinical efficacy in this setting of patients. In this report we describe the case of a patient with TNBC diagnosed at the metastatic level when the primary breast tumour presented overexpression of ER end PgR. An important tumoral heterogeneity has been described in breast cancer during its natural evolution and for that reason is important to perform metastatic lesions re-biopsy, when feasible, in order to re-evaluate the biological characteristics and define the optimal therapeutic strategy.

The management of patients with advanced breast cancer is becoming increasingly complex compared to the past, mainly due to numerous therapeutic innovations introduced in the current therapeutic scenario. At the time of metastatic disease diagnosis, as indicated by the guidelines, it is important to perform a biopsy of the metastatic sites to optimize choices and expand therapeutic options. Approximately 25-45% of patients who experience a recurrence of the primary tumor lose hormone receptor expression: in this context, solid data comes from a subanalysis of the randomized clinical trial ASCENT, in which the benefit of a treatment with antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan is also confirmed in case of non-triple negative breast cancer at diagnosis that subsequently convert to a triple negative subtype. The case reported below is representative of this clinical situation.