
Rural breast cancer deaths rise faster than urban rates, driven by low income, later diagnosis, and treatment gaps—warning of widening disparities by 2035.
Mark D. Pegram, MD, director of the Breast Cancer Oncology Program, Stanford Women’s Cancer Center, co-director of Molecular Therapeutics Program, Stanford Medicine, discusses the phase III SOPHIA trial, which is exploring margetuximab plus chemotherapy versus trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

