Navigating HER2+ Breast Cancer Treatment: A Patient's Journey
November 18th 2024Panelists discuss how a patient navigated her treatment journey at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), detailing the specific treatments received, her responses to those treatments, and her active participation in the shared decision-making process regarding her care.
Tailoring Patient Education and Resources in HER2+ Breast Cancer
November 18th 2024Panelists discuss how education and resources are provided to patients with breast cancer upon diagnosis, highlighting the importance of tailoring educational approaches to individual needs and preferences, and they also explore the various courses, books, and resources that patients have found helpful in their self-education journey.
Multidisciplinary Care of HER2+ Breast Cancer: A Patient Perspective
November 11th 2024Panelists discuss how a patient experienced care coordination during treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), detailing the health care professionals involved, the integration of services such as wound care and integrative medicine, and the positive impact of a team-based approach on her treatment experience and confidence in her care.
Coordinating Care for HER+ Breast Cancer Patients: A Multidisciplinary Approach
November 11th 2024Panelists discuss how effective care coordination at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) involves a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals working collaboratively to optimize the patient’s journey from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up, highlighting the essential role of nurse practitioners in this process.
HER2+ Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Insights fFrom Patients and Clinicians
November 4th 2024Panelists discuss how a patient navigated her recurrent breast cancer diagnosis, detailing the symptoms, referral process, diagnostic tests, treatment considerations, and the concerns faced throughout the journey, while also examining the steps taken to confirm her HER2+ diagnosis.
HER2+ Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Insights From Patients and Clinicians
November 4th 2024Panelists discuss how a patient navigated her recurrent breast cancer diagnosis, detailing the symptoms, referral process, diagnostic tests, treatment considerations, and the concerns faced throughout the journey, while also examining the steps taken to confirm her HER2+ diagnosis.
Overview of HER2 Breast Cancer
November 4th 2024Panelists provide a brief overview of breast cancer, discussing typical presentations of advanced breast cancer; key risk factors such as age, gender, and family history; various subtypes of the disease; and the essential steps in diagnosing, risk assessing, and staging patients.
Future Directions for the Management of HER2+ mBC
Neil Iyengar, MD; Claudine Isaacs, MD; Virginia Kaklamani, MD; and Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD, share clinical pearls for the evolving treatment landscape of HER+ metastatic breast cancer.
HER2+ Breast Cancer: Optimizing Quality of Life
Breast cancer experts discuss the importance of patient quality of life when considering treatment recommendations for HER2+ breast cancer.
Screening and Monitoring Visceral Disease in HER2+ BC
Claudine Isaacs, MD, comments on the follow-up and monitoring for a patient similar to the case presentation with HER2+ breast cancer.
Patient Case: 50-Year-Old Woman With HER2+/HR- Breast Cancer
Experts in breast cancer discuss the management of visceral metastases in HER2+ breast cancer, and Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD, presents the case of a 50-year-old woman with HER+/HR- breast cancer.