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breast cancer

Meenakshi Anurag, PhD, on Breast Cancer: New Data on Combining Anastrozole and Fulvestrant

Meenakshi Anurag, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine, discusses results from the ALTERNATE trial, which showed the combination of anastrozole plus fulvestrant was superior to either drug alone in inhibiting tumor proliferation in postmenopausal women with early-stage luminal B breast cancer...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, on HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: T-DXd vs T-DM1

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses phase III findings from the DESTINY-Breast03 trial, which compared ado-trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) with standard-of-care trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive...

breast cancer

Meredith M. Regan, ScD, on Early Breast Cancer: Updated Results From the TEXT and SOFT Trials

Meredith M. Regan, ScD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses findings that point to the potential benefits of using adjuvant exemestane plus ovarian function suppression (OFS) to treat premenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive early breast cancer. This conclusion came after 13 years...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, on Making Strides in Managing Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, discusses the progress made in recent years treating patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), including approval of the immunotherapy agents pembrolizumab and sacituzumab govitecan-hziy, a new standard of ...

breast cancer

Banu Arun, MD, on Fine-Tuning Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction in Breast Cancer

Banu Arun, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a session she moderated that included discussion of how exercise and diet may reduce the risk of breast cancer, and emerging non-endocrine treatments that may help prevent the disease.

breast cancer

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, on SABCS Meeting Highlights: Expert Perspective

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses what she considers to be the most notable presentations at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. They include the focus on early-stage disease, especially in the TEXT/SOFT, RxPonder, and KEYNOTE-522 trials, as well as...

breast cancer

Lisa A. Carey, MD, on HR-Positive and HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Overall Survival by Subtype Across Three MONALEESA Studies

Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses findings from a pooled analysis of the MONALEESA-2, -3, and -7 trials. Among the findings was a consistent overall survival benefit with ribociclib plus endocrine therapy...

breast cancer

Charles Coombes, MD, PhD, on Hormone Receptor–Positive HER2-Negative Breast Cancer: Use of Samuraciclib Plus Fulvestrant

Charles Coombes, MD, PhD, of Imperial College, London, discusses study results on samuraciclib, a first-in-class, oral, selective inhibitor of CDK7, in combination with fulvestrant in patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive HER2-negative breast cancer. The combination of agents has...

breast cancer
genomics/genetics

Patricia A. Ganz, MD, on Early Breast Cancer, Olaparib, Chemotherapy, and Quality of Life

Patricia A. Ganz, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses quality-of-life results from the phase III OlympiA study of adjuvant olaparib after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with germline BRCA1/2 mutations and high-risk HER2-negative early breast cancer (Abstract GS4-09).

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Komal Jhaveri, MD, on Triple-Negative and Metastatic Breast Cancers: New Data on Neratinib, Fulvestrant, and Trastuzumab

Komal Jhaveri, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the latest updates from the SUMMIT trial, which explored the combinations of neratinib/fulvestrant/trastuzumab and neratinib plus trastuzumab, as well as fulvestrant alone. The combination regimens appeared to benefit patients...

breast cancer

Michael Gnant, MD, on HR-Positive, HER2-Negative Early Breast Cancer: Trial Results With Palbociclib Treatment

Michael Gnant, MD, of the Medical University of Vienna, discusses phase III findings from the PALLAS study, which showed that adding 2 years of palbociclib to ongoing adjuvant endocrine therapy did not improve survival for patients with stage II to III hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early ...

breast cancer

François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD, on Metastatic Breast Cancer: Endocrine Therapy and Palbociclib

François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD, of the Institut Curie, discusses phase III findings of the PADA-1 study, which showed that optimizing endocrine therapy after detecting the ESR1 mutation in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer may double their median...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Javier Cortés, MD, PhD, on Previously Untreated Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy

Javier Cortés, MD, PhD, of the International Breast Cancer Center, discusses the final phase III results of KEYNOTE-355, which showed that pembrolizumab and chemotherapy improved overall and progression-free survival, compared with placebo and chemotherapy, for patients with previously untreated,...

breast cancer

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, on HR-Positive HER2-Negative Breast Cancer: Endocrine Therapy and Chemotherapy

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, discusses updated phase III results from the SWOG S1007 (RxPONDER) study of women with one to three positive lymph nodes, and hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. The data showed that postmenopausal women...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, on Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Neoadjuvant Treatment With Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy

Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, of Barts Cancer Institute, discusses phase III findings from KEYNOTE-522, in which researchers found a generally consistent event-free survival benefit among patients with early-stage high-risk triple-negative breast cancer who were treated with neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus ...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Hans Wildiers, MD, on Metastatic Breast Cancer: Comparing Addition of Eftilagimod Alpha vs Placebo to Paclitaxel

Hans Wildiers, MD, of University Hospitals Leuven, discusses the final results from the phase IIb AIPAC study, which suggested that eftilagimod added to paclitaxel may be of benefit to patients older than 65 years with hormone receptor­–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer after...

breast cancer

Yongbae Kim, MD, on Elective Internal Mammary Node Irradiation in Women With Node-Positive Breast Cancer: Results of a Randomized Phase III Trial

Yongbae Kim, MD, of the Yonsei Cancer Center and Yonsei University College of Medicine, discusses findings that showed the use of internal mammary area irradiation (IMNI) in regional nodal irradiation did not significantly improve disease-free survival for women with node-positive breast cancer....

breast cancer
lung cancer
issues in oncology

Matthew Manning, MD, on Resolving Racial Disparities in the Treatment of Breast and Lung Cancers

Matthew Manning, MD, of Cone Health Cancer Center, discusses findings that showed changes to the way cancer care is delivered may help eliminate racial disparities in survival among patients with early-stage lung and breast cancers. Identifying and addressing obstacles that kept patients from...

breast cancer
lung cancer

C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, on Using Radiotherapy to Thwart Tumor Growth in Advanced Cancers

C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses results from the first randomized trial of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat oligoprogressive, metastatic lung and breast cancers. The standard of care for patients with these types of tumors is to...

breast cancer
immunotherapy
symptom management

Youssef Zeidan, MD, PhD, on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Treatment-Related Cardiotoxicity

Youssef Zeidan, MD, PhD, of Florida International University and the Lynn Cancer Institute, discusses the advances in radiotherapy planning and delivery that have reduced cardiac radiation exposure in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer who are treated with radiotherapy and trastuzumab...

breast cancer

Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, on Geography, Breast Cancer Treatment, and Racial Disparities

Katherine E. Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses the timeliness of breast cancer care for Black women compared with non-Black women in North Carolina. Her data showed that greater geographic variation exists in the timeliness of breast cancer care...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Hope S. Rugo, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Treatment Findings From KEYNOTE-355 on Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy

Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discusses phase III results from the KEYNOTE-355 study of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, which improved overall survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with previously untreated locally recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic...

breast cancer

Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD, on Advanced Breast Cancer Treated With Endocrine Therapy and Ribociclib

Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses results from the MONALEESA-2 trial, which showed that adding the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to first-line hormonal therapy prolongs survival by 1 year for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive, ...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Javier Cortés, MD, PhD, on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Trastuzumab Deruxtecan vs Trastuzumab Emtansine

Javier Cortés, MD, PhD, of Barcelona’s IOB Institute of Oncology, discusses phase III data from the DESTINY-Breast03 study, which support trastuzumab deruxtecan becoming the standard of care for second-line treatment of women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (Abstract LBA1).

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Helena M. Earl, MBBS, PhD, on HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Trastuzumab Trials

Helena M. Earl, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Cambridge, discusses an individual patient data meta-analysis of noninferiority randomized clinical trials to determine whether a duration of less than the standard of 12 months of adjuvant trastuzumab is noninferior for treatment outcomes in patients ...

breast cancer

HR-Positive/HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

In this video, Drs. Sara A. Hurvitz, William J. Gradishar, and Sara M. Tolaney discuss the current treatment landscape for hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER-positive metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Hurvitz presents the case of a 34-year-old woman with de novo metastatic estrogen...

breast cancer

ER-Positive/HER2-Positive Breast Cancer and Residual Disease

In this video, Drs. Sara A. Hurvitz, William J. Gradishar, and Sara M. Tolaney turn their discussion to treatment options for HER2-positive breast cancer. Dr. Hurvitz presents a case of a 62-year-old woman diagnosed with high-grade cT1N1 estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/progesterone...

breast cancer

HR-Positive/HER2-Negative Early Breast Cancer

In this video, Drs. Sara A. Hurvitz, William J. Gradishar, and Sara M. Tolaney discuss the management of hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer. The faculty present the case of a 54-year-old perimenopausal Black woman who has been diagnosed with high-grade T3N1 left...

breast cancer

Newly Diagnosed HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer

In this video, Drs. Sara A. Hurvitz, William J. Gradishar, and Sara M. Tolaney discuss current treatment options for newly diagnosed HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Hurvitz presents the case of a 49-year-old perimenopausal Latina woman with intermediate-grade T2N1 left breast cancer...

breast cancer

Terry P. Mamounas, MD, MPH, on Breast Cancer: Extended Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy

Terry P. Mamounas, MD, MPH, of the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, discusses results from the NRG Oncology/NSABP B-42 study, which examined the Breast Cancer Index and its ability to predict whether extended treatment with letrozole benefits patients with hormone receptor–positive...

breast cancer

Melinda L. Telli, MD, on Breast Cancer: Neoadjuvant Talazoparib for Early HER2-Negative Disease

Melinda L. Telli, MD, of Stanford University, discusses results of a phase II study on neoadjuvant talazoparib in germline BRCA1/2 mutation–positive, early HER2-negative breast cancer. In this setting, talazoparib monotherapy was active and yielded pathologic complete response rates comparable to...

breast cancer

Priya Rastogi, MD, on Breast Cancer: Predicting the Benefit of Extended Letrozole Therapy

Priya Rastogi, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh, discusses results from the NRG Oncology/NSABP B-42 trial, which evaluated the utility of the 70-gene MammaPrint assay in predicting the benefit of extended letrozole therapy in patients who had completed 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Improving Long-Term Outcomes With Durvalumab

Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD, of the German Breast Group, discusses results from the phase III GeparNUEVO study, which investigated neoadjuvant durvalumab in addition to anthracycline/taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract 506).

breast cancer

Geoffrey J. Lindeman, MBBS, PhD, on Breast Cancer: Venetoclax and Fulvestrant in ER-Positive, HER2-Negative Disease

Geoffrey J. Lindeman, MBBS, PhD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, discusses results from the phase II VERONICA study, which compared venetoclax plus fulvestrant with fulvestrant alone in women with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who...

breast cancer

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD, on Luminal Breast Cancer: Prognostic Impact of Recurrence Score, Endocrine Response, and Other Factors

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD, of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, discusses first phase III results from a prospective high-risk cohort of patients with luminal breast cancer, which showed a good prognosis in some women with more than four positive lymph nodes and low recurrence scores. The study...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD, on Early Breast Cancer: Benefit of a De-escalated Regimen

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD, of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, discusses results from the ADAPT HR–/HER2+ trial, which showed, for the first time, improved pathologic complete response and survival in patients with early breast cancer who were treated weekly with a de-escalated 12-week regimen...

breast cancer

Ingrid A. Mayer, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Platinum-Based Chemotherapy vs Capecitabine

Ingrid A. Mayer, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discusses phase III results from a trial that showed patients with triple-negative breast cancer who had residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy had lower-than-expected invasive disease–free survival, regardless of study ...

breast cancer

Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, on Breast Cancer: Updated Analysis on Palbociclib Plus Fulvestrant

Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, discusses updated overall survival data from the phase III PALOMA-3 trial of palbociclib plus fulvestrant in women with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer (Abstract 1000).

breast cancer
genomics/genetics

Andrew Tutt, PhD, MBChB, on Breast Cancer: Olaparib After Chemotherapy in Germline BRCA1/2–Mutated Tumors

Andrew Tutt, PhD, MBChB, of the Institute of Cancer Research, London, discusses findings from the phase III OlympiA trial, which showed that adjuvant olaparib, a PARP inhibitor, following adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, may improve invasive disease–free survival in patients with germline...

breast cancer
issues in oncology

John Marshall, MD, and Liza Marshall: When Cancer Strikes an Oncologist’s Family

John Marshall, MD, of the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, and his wife, Liza Marshall, a breast cancer survivor, talk about the impact of her diagnosis, how it changed their view of cancer care and the way clinicians communicate, and why their memoir has an important message.

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Melinda L. Telli, MD, on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: NCCN Guidelines Update

Melinda L. Telli, MD, of Stanford Cancer Institute, discusses highlights of the new NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology®, including nonanthracycline, taxane-based regimens as preferred treatments for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer; newly approved combination therapies such as...

breast cancer

Linda T. Vahdat, MD, MBA, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment

Linda T. Vahdat, MD, MBA, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses results of a phase II trial designed to test the concept that targeting the tumor microenvironment by depleting copper may prevent metastases, essentially disrupting the infrastructure that contributes to tumor spread.

breast cancer

Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD, on Exploiting Cancer Biology in Developing New Treatment Paradigms

Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD, of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, reflects on the ways in which breast cancer research pioneered the targeted treatment approach, as understanding of the basic biology of tumors deepened and new pathways were uncovered. He sees a future ripe with possibilities...

breast cancer
immunotherapy

Rita Nanda, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies

Rita Nanda, MD, of the University of Chicago, discusses the latest data on novel treatment strategies for triple-negative breast cancer, including immune checkpoint, PARP, and ATK inhibitors; antibody-drug conjugates; and targeting the androgen receptor.

breast cancer
immunotherapy

William J. Gradishar, MD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: NCCN Guidelines Update

William J. Gradishar, MD, of Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, discusses the latest recommendations from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network for treating patients with triple-negative breast cancer; data on early-stage and advanced disease; and the role...

breast cancer

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, on ER+, HER2– Breast Cancer: More Effective Treatments Needed

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses results from the ALTERNATE trial on response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in postmenopausal women with clinical stage II or III estrogen receptor–positive and HER2-negative breast cancer that is resistant to endocrine therapy. The ...

breast cancer

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, on Her Plenary Lecture: Local Regional Management Following Neoadjuvant Therapy

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, summarizes her plenary talk, which featured the uncertainties in treatment knowledge: excision of postchemotherapy calcifications; the best sentinel lymph node biopsy technique for patients with node-positive disease who convert to...

breast cancer

Sibylle Loibl, MD, on HR+ HER2– Primary Breast Cancer: Palbociclib and Endocrine Therapy

Sibylle Loibl, MD, of the German Breast Group, discusses the first phase III results from the PENELOPE-B study of palbociclib combined with endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative primary breast cancer who are at high risk for relapse after neoadjuvant...

breast cancer
genomics/genetics
immunotherapy

Joyce V. Lee, PhD, on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: MYC as a Predictor of Treatment Response

Joyce V. Lee, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discusses data that suggest the MYC oncogene may indicate whether a patient with triple-negative breast cancer will respond to immunotherapy. Dr. Lee’s study is the first to describe MYC downregulation of MHC-I and to demonstrate...

breast cancer

Roisin M. Connolly, MD, on HR+ Advanced Breast Cancer: Endocrine Therapy and Entinostat

Roisin M. Connolly, MD, of University College Cork, discusses phase III results from the E2112 trial, which showed exemestane plus entinostat did not improve survival in aromatase inhibitor–resistant advanced HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer (Abstract GS4-02).

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