VK Gadi, MD, PhD

This segment emphasizes the need to ensure equitable access to novel HER2-targeted therapies through financial and logistical support, accurate biomarker testing, and effective knowledge dissemination to community clinicians.

This segment emphasizes that multidisciplinary collaboration and survivorship planning are essential to safely deliver HER2-targeted therapies and support long-term patient outcomes.

Clinicians show how to tailor HER2 treatment beyond guidelines, using proactive education and monitoring to curb ADC/TKI toxicities.

Infusion bottlenecks, prior authorizations and travel barriers limit access to new HER2 therapies; upcoming trials test better sequencing and equity.

Experts weigh HER2+ metastatic options after T‑DXd, balancing tucatinib CNS benefit, ADC‑after‑ADC evidence, and patient toxicity or comorbidities.

Experts weigh how early HER2 escalation with T‑DXd reshapes metastatic sequencing, with tucatinib options and APHINITY’s long-term signals.

Experts unpack second-line HER2+ breast cancer choices, why T-DXd leads, and when T-DM1 or tucatinib matters—especially with brain mets.

Experts discuss key takeaways and closing thoughts on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in cancer treatment.

Key opinion leaders examine promising antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in the pharmaceutical development pipeline.

Expert clinicians offer strategic guidance on optimal sequencing of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in treatment protocols.

Experts provide clinical insights on the management of emetogenicity in patients receiving antibody-drug conjugates.

A panel of experts discuss hematologic adverse events associated with antibody-drug conjugate therapies.

VK Gadi, MD, PhD, discusses the challenge of identifying patients with HER2-low disease, emphasizing communication between pathologists and medical oncologists in the diagnostic process.

Key opinion leaders anticipate future developments in HER2-positive breast cancer, and on the potential for translating therapeutic advances from the metastatic landscape into early-stage disease management.

Medical experts delve into the challenges of brain metastases in HER2-positive breast cancer, exploring local therapies for targeting central nervous system metastases and emphasizing the crucial role of multidisciplinary tumor boards, collaboration with colleagues, and referrals to specialized providers in optimizing patient outcomes.

Key opinion leaders revisit the HER2CLIMB trial, providing an in-depth analysis of the latest updates and their implications for the management of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD, presents the case of a 54-year-old woman with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer exhibiting bone, liver, and brain lesions, and key opinion leaders share their perspectives on the most appropriate treatment approaches tailored to the patient's specific disease characteristics and metastatic sites.

Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD, shares his insights on managing patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have progressed on second and third-line treatments, stressing the potential benefits of incorporating small molecules, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), chemotherapy, and enrolling patients in clinical trials to optimize outcomes.

VK Gadi, MD, PhD, discusses primary results from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast06 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan in HR-positive, HER2-low breast cancer.

Tiffany A. Traina, MD, addresses adverse event monitoring and the range of adverse events patients may experience with front-line treatments for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, particularly highlighting alopecia and diarrhea as common side effects.

Key opinion leaders explore various therapeutic options for later-line treatment of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, emphasizing the significance of the HER2CLIMB and CLEOPATRA trials, while also drawing comparisons to real-world data to inform clinical decision-making.

Tiffany A. Traina, MD, presents a patient case involving a woman diagnosed with HR-negative, HER2 3+ invasive ductal adenocarcinoma and elaborates on the clinical management approaches employed in her treatment sequencing.

Heather McArthur, MD, emphasizes the influence of recent and ongoing clinical trials, specifically DESTINY-Breast09 and HER2CLIMB-05, in steering the treatment paradigm in 1st-line HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Medical experts examine the current standards of care and successive lines of treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, while also addressing the challenges encountered in managing this complex disease.

Tiffany A. Traina, MD; Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD, and Heather McArthur, MD, underscore the importance of testing all early-stage and breast cancer patients for HER2 positivity to inform and guide optimal therapeutic decision-making.

The expert panel discusses ongoing research and offers closing thoughts on the future of HR+/HER2- breast cancer treatment.

Panelists share clinical insight into how to approach treatment selection among ADCs in HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer both now and in the future, given the currently available options and additional ADCs in development.

Dr Gadi discusses recent data updates on the TROP-2–directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) sacituzumab govitecan (SG), including analyses performed in patients with HER2-low disease.

Experts on HR+/HER2- breast cancer discuss biomarker testing approaches, including sampling considerations and timing of testing.

Dr Vidal expands on use of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway inhibitors following frontline progression, focusing on the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib for patients with PIK3CA mutations, as well as capivasertib, an AKT inhibitor in development.