Breast Cancer

We traveled to Pasadena, California, for a State of the Science Summit™ on Breast Cancer, which featured insights from the faculty from City of Hope.

Jane Meisel, MD, provides insight on how genomic assays are helping to individualize treatment plans and strategies to determine the optimal duration of endocrine therapy.

Abemaciclib plus fulvestrant improved overall survival in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy led to a statistically significant improvement in pathological complete response rates compared with placebo plus chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant phase of a neoadjuvant/adjuvant treatment regimen in patients with triple-negative breast cancer, meeting one of the dual primary endpoints of the phase III KEYNOTE-522 trial.

During a recent OncLive Peer Exchange®, a panel of breast cancer experts discussed how they are using CDK4/6 inhibitors in their practices. They shared their insights on the tolerability and toxicity profiles of the FDA-approved CDK4/6 inhibitors, how they choose which agents to use for each patient, and how they select the next line of therapy after the patient progresses.

Michel Velez, MD, medical oncologist at Holy Cross Hospital, discusses the management of neratinib (Nerlynx)-associated diarrhea in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.

Kari B. Wisinski, MD, highlights modern day approaches for treating patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended approval of the frontline combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) plus nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive triple-negative breast cancer.

Christopher R. Chitambar, MD, FACP, discusses the research that led to the development of CDK4/6 inhibitors in metastatic HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer and the significance of the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib.