HER2 Breast Cancer

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH speaks to the testing and treatment advances for women with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Experts in breast oncology review 3 clinical cases of HER2+ breast cancer and discuss individualized treatment approaches for each patient.

Frontline trastuzumab plus lapatinib and an aromatase inhibitor demonstrated superior progression-free survival compared with the trastuzumab/aromatase inhibitor alone as treatment of patients with HER2-positive, HR-positive metastatic breast cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology following the conference, Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, gave his take on how targeted therapies are impacting the field of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, and he interprets the primary data from the phase 2 HER2CLIMB trial.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Stephanie Weiss, MD, reviewed the treatment landscape for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and gave her predictions on how the paradigm will evolve for patients with brain metastases now that tucatinib has demonstrated efficacy.

Multiple positive responses were observed in an exploratory efficacy analysis evaluating tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine in patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with brain metastases in the previously reported HER2CLIMB trial.