BREAST CANCER

Results from the VERITAC trial presented at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium showed that ARV-471 monotherapy may be active in ER-positive/HER2-negative locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer.

Findings from the phase 3 CAPItello-291 trial show that the combination of capivasertib plus fulvestrant achieved improvement in progression-free survival among patients with hormone-receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Findings from the HER2CLIMB clinical trial of tucatinib combined with trastuzumab and capecitabine verified the safety of the regimen in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

According to Ruth O'Regan, MD, BCI is the first genomic assay to demonstrate benefit from ovarian suppression.

Poorer outcomes were shown in Black patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, including in patients with similar 21-gene recurrence scores.

Among premenopausal patients, the addition of everolimus to endocrine therapy improved iDFS and OS, which is hypothesis generating, said Mariana Chavez-MacGregor, MD.

The data from 2 years post primary efficacy analysis of monarchE study showed that adjuvant abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy improves invasive disease-free survival.

Residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy tumor microenvironment of metastasis doorway density is higher in Black women, potentially explaining poorer outcomes.

Pre- and postmenopausal patient with breast cancer may experience cognitive impairment with chemotherapy and endocrine therapy, according to RxPONDER PRO substudy results presented during SABCS 2022.

Yielding a 46% reduction in the risk of disease progression of death compared with combination chemotherapy, ribociclib plus endocrine therapy may be a new standard of care for patients with pre/perimenopausal HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer

Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD, discusses the leptomeningeal metastases in patients with breast cancer and an FDA-approved targeted therapy/chemotherapy combination that is being studied as a treatment.

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, discusses recent data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 trial of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Fast track designation has been granted to REM-001 therapy for patients with cutaneous metastatic breast cancer based on positive data from 4 phase 2/3 studies.

Lisa A. Carey, MD, ScM, discusses the recent trends in treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.

With the addition of eganelisib to atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel, patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer have longer progression-free survival and better response vs atezolizumab and nab-paclitaxel alone.

Phase 2 trial of trilaciclib administered prior to sacituzumab govitecan-hziy in patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer demonstrates encouraging reductions in adverse events.

In a first-in-human trial, a peptide-drug conjugate showed tolerability and antitumor activity in patients with advanced solid tumors.

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month Kristina Mirabeau-Beale, mD, MPH, and Bridget Koontz, MD, discuss the different types of breast cancer that clinicians need to be aware of.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH briefly explains metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer, and reviews existing treatment options for patients with ER+/HER2- mBC.

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, discusses key takeaways from analysis of the KEYNOTE-522 clinical trial of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting for patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

A progression-free survival advantage and trend toward overall survival benefit has been demonstrated in the CAPItello-291 study of capivasertib and fulvestrant for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, HER2-low or negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

The risk of progression or death in post-menopausal patients with estrogen receptor-positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer was reduced with camizestrant in the SERENA-2 study.

Jamie Brett discusses the similarities and differences between ESR1 mutations and fusions and why they are grouped together.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Rachel C. Jankowitz, MD, discusses the result of treatment with sacituzumab govitecan in the ASCENT trial of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

During the 2022 October ASCO Plenary Series, an analysis from the PALLAS trial revealed there to be no invasive disease-free survival benefit derived with palbociclib added to endocrine therapy in ER-positive breast cancer.