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)."
Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Lisa Carey, MD, of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discuss:
Matthew J. Ellis, MD, PhD, of the Baylor College of Medicine, offers a brief synopsis of his plenary lecture, "Genome-Directed Therapeutics for Endocrine Therapy–Resistant Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer."
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FACP, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses findings from abstract P5-19-09, “Stage 1 results from MDV3100-11: A two-stage study of enzalutamide, an androgen receptor inhibitor, in advanced androgen receptor–positive triple-negative breast cancer,” presented by Tiffany A. Traina, MD.
Larry Wickerham, MD, and Harry D. Bear, MD, PhD, discuss three clinical trials:
• B-40, the only study to combine neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy with bevacizumab
• B-51, on radiation to the chest wall
• Alliance trial, on lymph node dissection
Prudence Francis, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and Hope Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discuss data from abstract S3-08, "Randomized comparison of adjuvant tamoxifen plus ovarian function suppression vs tamoxifen in premenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive early breast cancer: Analysis of the SOFT trial."
