2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Jack Cuzick, PhD, FMedSci, on DCIS Recurrence Rates: Anastrozole vs Tamoxifen
Jack Cuzick, PhD, FMedSci, of Queen Mary, University of London, discusses his phase III study on postmenopausal women with DCIS who had similar outcomes whether they took tamoxifen or anastrozole for ...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Norman Wolmark, MD, on NSABP Clinical Trials and Management of Early Breast Cancer
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Norman Wolmark, MD, of Allegheny General Hospital, discuss the landmark trials of NSABP that have led to profound changes in breast c...
Lori Pierce, MD, on Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Late Side Effects
Lori J. Pierce, MD, of the University of Michigan Health System, discusses findings on second cancer incidence and non-breast cancer mortality among 40,000 women in 75 clinical trials. (Abstract S5-08...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Hope Rugo, MD, on Advanced Breast Cancer: KEYNOTE-028 Study Results
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discuss preliminary efficacy and safety findings of pembrolizumab i...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Erica Mayer, MD, MPH, on Results of the PALLAS Clinical Trial
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss this phase 3 trial of palbociclib with adjuvant endocrine thera...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Sabine Seisling, PhD, on Early-Stage Breast Cancer Outcomes: Breast-Conserving Therapy vs Mastectomy
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Sabine Siesling, PhD, of the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization, discuss the improved overall survival after 10 years in w...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Hope Rugo, MD, on Reducing Alopecia: FDA Approves New Device
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discuss the recent approval of a cooling cap to reduce hair loss du...
Clifford Hudis, MD, and Joseph Sparano, MD, on Results from DBCG778: Expert Perspective
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Joseph A. Sparano, MD, of Montefiore Medical Center, discuss this study of high-risk premenopausal luminal A breast cancer patient...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Eric Winer, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Results of the CALGB Alliance Trial
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Eric P. Winer, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss the results of this study that showed pathologic complete response to...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Hope Rugo, MD: Less is More: Scaling Back Breast Cancer Treatment
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discuss findings on de-escalating systemic therapy for breast cance...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Ruth O'Regan, MD: Update on Early Breast Cancer
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Ruth M. O’Regan, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, review practice-changing research in 2015 that was focused on early-stage breast...
Andrew Seidman, MD, and Seema Khan, MD, MPH on Controversies in the Management of DCIS
Andrew Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Seema A. Khan, MD, MPH, of the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center, discuss the session moderated by Dr. Khan on this important top...
Clifford Hudis, MD, and Carlos Arteaga, MD, on Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity in Breast Cancer
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, of Vanderbilt University, discuss the roles of IGF/insulin signaling, adipokines and inflammation, and metf...
Clifford Hudis, MD, and Julia White, MD, on Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Hypofractionated Radiotherapy
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Julia R. White, MD, of Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discuss a meta-analysis on efficacy and safety of hypofr...
Clifford Hudis, MD, and William Gradishar, MD: Expert Perspective
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and William J. Gradishar, MD, of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, discuss the most important papers and results at this year's S...
Jame Abraham, MD, on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Results of the BCIRG-006 Study
Jame Abraham, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses the 10-year follow-up of this trial, and the long-term benefit and safety of adding trastuzumab to the adjuvant treatment of HER2-positive early br...
Jame Abraham, MD, on The JAVELIN and KEYNOTE-028 Study Results
Jame Abraham, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses findings on the use of avelumab, an anti–PD-L1 antibody, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, as well as the preliminary ...
Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, on Clinical Applications of Hereditary Multigene Panels
Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, gives her expert perspective on this vital and timely topic.
Mitchell Dowsett, PhD, on Estimating Residual Distant Recurrence Risk: EndoPredict and Oncotype DX
Mitchell Dowsett, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital discusses the EndoPredict test, which has improved performance compared with the widely used Oncotype Dx test (Abstract S3-01).
William M. Sikov, MD, FACP, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Results of the CALGB Alliance Trial
William M. Sikov, MD, of Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, discusses the results of this study that showed pathologic complete response to presurgery chemotherapy improved survival (Abstract...
Lisa Carey, MD, and Jay Harris, MD, on Critical Decision Making in Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina, and Jay Harris, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discuss Dr. Harris' plenary lecture.
Gunter von Minckwitz, MD: Early Survival Analysis of GeparSixto
Gunter von Minckwitz, MD, of the German Breast Group, discusses data from this phase II trial investigating the addition of carboplatin to neoadjuvant therapy for triple-negative and HER2-positive ear...
Matthew J. Ellis, PhD, FRCP: Update on Translational Research
Matthew J. Ellis, PhD, FRCP, of the Baylor College of Medicine, gives his expert perspective on this evolving area of research.
Patricia Ganz, MD, on Results from NSABP B-35: Patient-Reported Outcomes
Patricia A. Ganz, MD, of the University of California at Los Angeles, discusses this clinical trial of anastrozole vs tamoxifen in postmenopausal women with ductal carcinoma in situ undergoing lumpect...
Lisa Carey, MD, and Kathy Albain, MD, on Results of the SWOG-8814 Trial
Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina, and Kathy S. Albain, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center, discuss molecular predictors of outcome on adjuvant CAF plus tamoxifen, vs tamoxif...
Lisa Carey, MD, and Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD: Update on Metastatic Disease
Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina, and Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD, of the German Breast Group, discuss new data on palbociclib, new immunotherapy, and brain metastases (Abstract YR4).
Hans Wildiers, MD, PhD on the TH3RESA Study: Final OS Results
Hans Wildiers, MD, PhD, of the University Hospitals, Leuven, discusses this phase III study on the use of ado-trastuzumab emtansine vs treatment of physician’s choice in previously treated HER2-positi...
Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, on Results of the CREATE-X Clinical Trial on Higher-Risk Disease
Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the CREATE-X adjuvant study of capecitabine in high-risk patients with residual disease (Abstract S6-01).
Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD, on BOLERO-2 Clinical Trial Results
Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses results from this study that showed patients with ER-positive metastatic breast cancer who had a D538G and/or a Y...
Michael Gnant, MD, on Hormone Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer: Results From the ABCSG-18 Trial
Michael Gnant, MD, of the Medical University of Vienna, discusses a study in which denosumab was added to adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy to improve disease-free survival in postmenopausal patien...
Sherene Loi, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Pooled Data Analysis
Sherene Loi, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, discusses a pooled individual patient data analysis of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in primary triple-negative breast cancer treated with a...
Benjamin D. Smith, MD, on Mastectomy vs Lumpectomy: Complications and Costs
Benjamin D. Smith, MD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the higher complication rates and economic burdens of mastectomy plus reconstruction vs lumpectomy plus radiation in early breast can...
