Mitchell Dowsett, PhD, on Estimating Residual Distant Recurrence Risk: EndoPredict and Oncotype DX
2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
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).
Jame Abraham, MD
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 breast cancer (Abstract S5-04).
Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD
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 Y537S mutation in the ESR1 gene had significantly worse median overall survival (Abstract S2-07).
Lori J. Pierce, MD
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 Eric P. Winer, MD
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 presurgery chemotherapy improved survival (Abstract S2-05).
Jame Abraham, MD
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 efficacy and safety findings of pembrolizumab in patients with PD-L1–positive, estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative disease (Abstracts S1-04, S5-07).