Breast Cancer

Pyrotinib plus capecitabine achieved a better progression-free survival than lapatinib plus capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer previously treated with trastuzumab and chemotherapy.

Nancy U. Lin, MD, discusses updated findings from the phase 2 HER2CLIMB study in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with brain metastases.

Pembrolizumab in combination with several chemotherapy partners led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone as a first-line treatment for patients with locally recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors expressed PD-L1.

Patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and brain metastases achieved significant intracranial responses with a combination of tucatinib plus trastuzumab and capecitabine, according to findings from a subset of patients in the HER2CLIMB trial.

Over half of patients with PIK3CA-positive, HR-positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who had prior treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor plus an aromatase inhibitor were alive without disease progression 6 months after starting treatment with alpelisib plus fulvestrant.

Data from the long-awaited ECOG-ACRIN E2108 trial showed that surgery and radiation to the tumor does not extend overall survival compared with systemic treatment alone in women with stage IV breast cancer.

Fabrice André, MD, PhD, discusses strategies to improve outcomes in patients with breast cancer.

Guy Jerusalem, MD, PhD, discusses the utility of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in HER2-positive breast cancer.

The PARP inhibitor veliparib increased progression-free survival in women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer and triple-negative breast cancer who harbored a germline BRCA1/2 mutation when co-administered with carboplatin and paclitaxel, according to findings from the phase 3 BROCADE3 trial (NCT02163694).

Developing diagnostics to identify the molecular drivers of breast cancer and model the mechanisms of disease progression will be a key priority of the investigative efforts aimed at improving patient outcomes in the field over the next decade.

LSZ102 was found to be well tolerated and demonstrate clinical activity in combination with either ribociclib or alpelisib in patients with estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer who have progressed on endocrine therapy.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) demonstrated continued benefit in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer who had stable, treated brain metastases at baseline.

Although little evidence exists with regard to how to best treat patients with breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines have been issued by organizations like ESMO to assist providers with making those decisions.

Adding ipatasertib to paclitaxel continued to demonstrate a clinically meaningful extension in overall survival in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Yeon Hee Park, MD, discusses the utility and benefit of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, specifically in patients with central nervous system metastases.

Rebecca Dent, MD, discusses the findings from the phase 2 LOTUS trial that treated patients with inoperable locally advanced/metastatic triple-negative breast cancer with first-line ipatasertib plus paclitaxel.

The combination of entinostat and exemestane did not show a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared with exemestane alone in patients with advanced hormone receptor—positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who have progressed on a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor, missing the primary endpoint of the phase 3 E2112 trial.

Ahead of the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program, we spoke with a handful of leading oncologists in breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, and hematologic malignancies to gain their perspectives on the most significant studies in their respective specialties.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses recent updates with immunotherapy in triple negative breast cancer.

Jennifer Litton, MD, discusses the findings from the overall survival analysis of the EMBRACA trial, the implications of these data, and the future utility of talazoparib in this space.