BREAST CANCER

First-line treatment with palbociclib plus letrozole demonstrated survival improvement vs letrozole monotherapy in patients with ER-positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

A safety follow-up analysis of the randomized phase 3 DESTINY-Breast03 study reinforced the risk-benefit profile of trastuzumab deruxtecan compared with trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic breast cancer

A 34% reduction in the risk of disease progression was observed with sacituzumab govitecan vs standard chemotherapy as treatment of patients with hormone-receptor-positive and HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Physicians cover the options for a patient with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, early-stage breast cancer, which course of action they would take, and the data supporting that choice.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Stephanie L. Graff, MD, discussed the case of a patient with triple-negative breast cancer who progressed following adjuvant chemotherapy and frontline carboplatin treatment.

During a case-based roundtable event, Foluso Olabisi Ademuyiwa, MD, MPH, MSCI and a group of peers discussed the benefits and challenges with using sacituzumab govitevan to treat a 48-year-old patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

According to a survey, some Black patients with metastatic breast cancer harbor distrust toward clinical trials, which has impacted the number of Black patients who participate.

A phase 1b trial of ALRN-6924 in patients with p53-mutated breast cancer who are being treated with doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide and docetaxel has treated its first patients.

A new trial will investigate the combination of ZEN-3694 and talazoparib in patients who previous received a TROP2 antibody-drug conjugate.

During a live virtual event, Rita Nanda, MD, discussed the choice of therapy for a patient whose metastatic triple-negative breast cancer recurred after adjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel.

Endocrine therapy plus bevacizumab with the possibility of weekly paclitaxel reinduction signals efficacy and demonstrates a good safety profile in patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have responded to induction therapy.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have received a prior anti-HER2- based regimen.

Combination of ribociclib plus fulvestrant achieved a median overall survival of 67.6 months in the first-line setting for patients with postmenopausal, hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Treatment with the combination of odetiglucan or Imprime PGG and pembrolizumab had begun in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory breast cancer who are enrolled in a phase 2 clinical trial.

Jamie Brett, resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the effectiveness of CDK4/6 for patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) with ESR1 mutations and fusions.

Participants of a live, virtual case-based event discussed different scenarios for treatment of a patient with BRCA and PD-L1 negative, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Vote in the polls on what you would have chosen if this was your patient.

During a case-based roundtable event, Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, discussed clinical typing of patients with breast cancer and the results of trials of therapies for patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, William J. Gradishar, MD, discussed the current landscape of caring for patients with advanced breast cancer.

In season 3, episode 3 of Targeted Talks, William J. Gradishar, MD, discusses the latest version of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guideline for managing early-stage breast cancer.

FDA fast track designation has been granted to cell-based immunotherapy Bria-IMT for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Pertuzumab combined with trastuzumab, and docetaxel revealed comparable survival outcomes with previous studies of patients with metastatic breast cancer, including the CLEOPATRA trial.

According to new data, different dosing strategies of elimusertib for advanced solid tumors with ATM alterations and other DNA damage repair gene defects has demonstrated early efficacy.

According to Tanjina Kader, PhD, 12% of patients in the cohort who developed new, independent primary tumors raised the question of whether using these genetic biomarkers for prediction of recurrence is a good idea.

Part 2 of the phase 1/2 trial investigating LUT014, a topical agent for radiation-induced dermatitis in patients with breast cancer, completed its enrollment of 20 patients.

Lee Schwartzberg, MD, discusses important questions that have been raised due to the positive results of pembrolizumab immunotherapy for patients with triple-negative breast cancer.