Breast Cancer

The frontline combination of fulvestrant and anastrozole resulted in a sustained benefit in progression-free survival and a significant improvement in overall survival compared with anastrozole alone in patients with postmenopausal, HR–positive metastatic breast cancer, according to long-term results of the SWOG S0226 trial.

Although it has been difficult to identify a specific target for triple-negative breast cancer, several therapeutic classes are showing great promise.

David M. Euhus, MD, director of breast surgery, professor of surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the rarity of angiosarcoma of the breast.

The FDA has proposed amendments to key policies to modernize breast cancer screening and improve mammography services, in order to enable healthcare providers and patients to make more informed medical decisions

Kristin J. Richardson, MD, highlights advances made with CDK4/6 inhibitors in the treatment of patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer and forecasts where treatment is headed in this space.

Kelly Hunt, MD, professor and chair of Breast Surgical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses treatment approaches for patients with breast cancer who have local regional recurrence.

Ruta D. Rao, MD, highlights the importance of determining risk for recurrence and its impact on conversations about extended adjuvant endocrine therapy and the use of chemotherapy in patients with early-stage HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

William J. Gradishar, MD, discusses the latest updates in HER2-negative advanced breast cancer and the role of molecular assays in this space.

​​John H. Ward, MD, discusses his preferences in multilane testing for patients with hormone receptor–positive, node-negative breast cancer.

Ruta D. Rao, MD, an associate professor at Rush University Medical Center, discusses therapy de-escalation for patients with early-stage hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

A 2018 Giants of Cancer Care® award winner for Supportive, Palliative Geriatric Care, Patricia A. Ganz, MD has spent much of her life working to improve the quality of care for patients with cancer.

The term statistically significant is almost certainly beautiful music to the ears of clinical investigators and pharma/biotech companies. However, concern develops when one inquires how the most common test of significance, the P value, is used in clinical investigative efforts and whether at times this is more harmful than helpful within the domain of cancer medicine.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily withdrawn their biologics license application for eflapegrastim, due to the company needing more time to complete the FDA’s request for additional manufacturing-related information.

The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has granted an Early Access to Medicines Scheme positive scientific opinion to atezolizumab in combination with nab-paclitaxel for patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive triple-negative breast cancer.

Blood-based biomarkers offer great potential for use in the management of breast and other cancers.

David M. Euhus, MD, discusses a new trio of genes entering the risk assessment equation in hereditary breast cancer.

Anees B. Chagpar, MD, FACS, associate professor, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, assistant director, Global Oncology, Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the management of the axilla in breast cancer.

Identifying patients with ductal carcinoma in situ who are more likely to develop invasive breast cancer remains a challenge, despite decades of research and the development of stratification methods to predict progression and recurrence.

Jennifer Litton, MD, associate professor in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the impact of PARP inhibitors in breast cancer.

Patrick I. Borgen, MD, chair, Department of Surgery, director, Breast Cancer, Maimonides Medical Center, discusses the opioid crisis related to the treatment of patients with breast cancer.