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2024 Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting

Breast Cancer

Innovative Staging System for De Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer Validated Internationally

A ground breaking staging system for de novo metastatic breast cancer has been validated in an international cohort, perhaps paving the way for more personalized care and improved outcomes for patient...

Breast Cancer
Geriatric Oncology

Study Reveals Potential Overtreatment of DCIS in Older Women With Limited Life Expectancy

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) may often be overtreated in older women with limited life expectancy, according to research presented during the 2024 Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Annual Meeting....

Breast Cancer
Genomics/Genetics

Breast-Conserving Therapy in BRCA-Mutation Carriers: Study Looks at Long-Term Outcomes

Recent research has provided valuable insights into the long-term outcomes of patients with pathogenic BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations who undergo breast-conserving therapy, according to a study presented a...

skin cancer
immunotherapy

Sophia McKinley, MD, EdM, on Cutaneous Melanoma: Outcomes With Adjuvant Immunotherapy

Sophia McKinley, MD, EdM, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses patterns of recurrence in patients with resected cutaneous melanoma during or after adjuvant immunotherapy. She identifies the ri...

skin cancer
immunotherapy

Jenny H. Chang, MD, on New Findings on Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy

Jenny H. Chang, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses the current surgical and radiologic treatment paradigm for patients with stage III Merkel cell carcinoma and the potential for neoadjuvant immuno...

breast cancer

Judy C. Boughey, MD, on De-escalating Axillary Surgery After Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

Judy C. Boughey, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, discusses findings from the I-SPY2 trial, which show that although the extent of residual disease and tumor biology in patients with breast cancer may impact o...

lung cancer

Akhil G. Pachimatla, MD, on NSCLC: A Link Between Image-Based Measures of Obesity and Metabolic Pathways

Akhil G. Pachimatla, MD, of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses study findings showing that, in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), image-based adiposity measures show st...

breast cancer

Kerollos N. Wanis, MD, PhD, on Risks for BRCA Mutation Carriers Treated With Breast-Conserving Therapy

Kerollos N. Wanis, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study in which he evaluated the risk of future ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancer events in a lar...

breast cancer

Heather McArthur, MD, MPH, on Early-Stage High-Risk ER+/HER2− Breast Cancer: New pCR Results for Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy

Heather McArthur, MD, MPH, of UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses phase III findings from the KEYNOTE-756 trial, which shows that adding pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy increases patho...

breast cancer

Natália Polidorio, MD, PhD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Impact of Race on Treatment Efficacy

Natália Polidorio, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses findings on the impact of race on pathologic complete response in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast canc...

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