Lisa A. Carey, MD, of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, offers her thoughts on abstract S1-09, "A phase IB study of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer," presented by Rita Nanda, MD.
Jack Cuzick, PhD, of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, discusses abstract S3-07, "16-year long-term follow-up of the IBIS-I breast cancer prevention trial."
Harry D. Bear, MD, PhD, of Massey Cancer Center, discusses abstract PD2-1, “The effect on overall and disease-free survival by adding bevacizumab and/or antimetabolites to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy: NSABP Protocol B-40.”
Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discusses abstract S5-08, “Final survival analysis from the randomized Women's Intervention Nutrition Study (WINS) evaluating dietary intervention as adjuvant breast cancer therapy,” presented by Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD.
William M. Sikov, MD, of Women and Infants Hospital, discusses abstract S4-05, "Impact of intrinsic subtype by PAM50 and other gene signatures on pathologic complete response rates in triple-negative breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without carboplatin or bevacizumab: CALGB 40603/150709 (Alliance)."
Edith A. Perez, MD, of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, discusses abstract S1-06, “Stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes: In the Alliance N9831 trial S-TILs are associated with chemotherapy benefit but not associated with trastuzumab benefit.”
