Harry D. Bear, MD, PhD, of Massey Cancer Center, discusses abstract OT1-3-02, “Will chest wall and regional nodal radiotherapy post mastectomy or the addition of regional nodal radiotherapy to breast radiotherapy post lumpectomy reduce the rate of invasive cancer events in patients with positive...
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.”
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
As part of our ongoing coverage of the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting, The ASCO Post has provided substantive reports on key breast cancer trials, but others deserve attention. Lapatinib/Capecitabine Controls Brain Metastases Results of the French phase II LANDSCAPE trial found lapatinib (Tykerb) plus...
The phase III National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) B-40 (NRG Oncology) trial showed that the addition of bevacizumab (Avastin) to docetaxel + anthracycline-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy improved pathologic complete response rate, the primary endpoint, in patients with early...