Breast Cancer

This video highlights recent studies advancing the field of breast cancer screening and diagnosis, including the potential need for increased surveillance in patients with false positives and patient access to mammography.

After undergoing treatment, women with young-onset breast cancer and BRCA mutations had similar survival rates as those women who were not mutation carriers, according to the results of a prospective study.

This video reviews various trials that aimed to improve outcomes or minimize toxicities among patients receiving adjuvant treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer.

This video highlights a study on optoacoustic imaging, a new type of imaging that could improve breast cancer diagnosis by differentiating between benign and malignant breast masses.

This video highlights results of REACT, a phase III multi-center double-blind randomized trial of celecoxib vs placebo in patients with breast cancer.

This video reviews studies investigating the use of germline clinical testing for breast cancer.

This video highlights quality-of-life results from a large prospective study of men treated for breast cancer.

Dual HER2 blockade with lapatinib and trastuzumab plus AI therapy was more effective than trastuzumab plus AI alone in HER2+, HR+ metastatic breast cancer.

Toxicities from buparlisib make it a poor option for patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who progressed on mTOR inhibitor therapy.

Cardiac effects of pertuzumab and trastuzumab following chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting were limited for HER2-positive breast cancer patients.

A recent analysis from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium revealed that community oncology practices are neglecting to use MRI screening for at-risk women, and lower-risk women are being unnecessarily screened.

In this slide show we highlight some of the top news on breast cancer in 2017, including long-term benefits of mammography, treatment advances, pregnancy in survivors, and more.

Undergoing axillary lymph node dissection is associated with increased arm morbidity in younger breast cancer patients compared with sentinel lymph node biopsy.

The PARP inhibitor talazoparib significantly increased progression-free survival over physician’s choice of therapy in a randomized phase III trial of patients with advanced breast cancer and a germline BRCA mutation.

This interview provides perspective on developments in breast cancer treatment in 2017, as well as a preview of what we can expect to change in the treatment of breast cancer in 2018.

Disease-free survival after 9 weeks of adjuvant trastuzumab and standard chemotherapy was not comparable to disease-free survival after 1 year of adjuvant trastuzumab and standard chemotherapy for women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer. 

After undergoing 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy, 2 years of extended anastrozole proved as effective as 5 years for preventing breast cancer recurrence among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer, according to the results of the ABCSG-16 phase III trial.

A study found that circulating tumor cells are predictive of late recurrence in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

An antibody–drug conjugate known as sacituzumab govitecan demonstrated significant clinical activity in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to a new study.

Treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog can safely and effectively protect ovarian function and has the potential to preserve fertility in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer.

Adding vistusertib to fulvestrant failed to demonstrate a benefit over everolimus in patients with ER-positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Undergoing acupuncture significantly reduced joint pain related to treatment with aromatase inhibitors in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer.

Adding trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy did not result in improved rates of invasive disease-free survival in patients with early-stage breast cancer and low levels of HER2 expression, according to a new study.

Increasing chemotherapy dose intensity reduced the risk of recurrence and death over standard chemotherapy regimens, according to a meta-analysis of women with early-stage breast cancer. 

The addition of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to endocrine therapy with either tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor significantly improved progression-free survival among premenopausal and perimenopausal women with breast cancer.

The combination of pembrolizumab and trastuzumab showed promising clinical benefit in patients with trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive advanced breast cancer who express PD-L1, according to a new study.

A study found no difference in outcomes between 2 and 5 years of treatment with zoledronate after chemotherapy in early breast cancer patients, suggesting the longer duration may not be necessary.

Traditional neoadjuvant chemotherapy along with dual HER2-targeted blockade yielded significantly better response rates than a novel approach using HER2-targeted chemotherapy plus HER2-targeted blockade, according to a randomized phase III trial.

The FDA approved a biosimilar for trastuzumab, Ogivri, for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast and stomach cancer.

The OncoArray Consortium, an endeavor involving 550 researchers from 6 continents, identified new target genes that may allow for better definition of the pathways and mechanisms underlying breast cancer susceptibility.