HER2+ Breast Cancer

Kathryn Ruddy, MD, associate professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, discusses the management of central nervous system (CNS) metastases in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, senior physician, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the treatment landscape of HER2-positive breast cancer.

A. Jo Chien, MD, associate clinical professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses de-escalation strategies for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Although the first steps have been taken with immunotherapy in breast cancer, Sherene Loi, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS, said development is still lagging in HER2-positive disease because of effective anti-HER2 therapies available.

Andrea V. Barrio, MD, FACS, breast surgical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment options for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

William J. Gradishar, MD, chief of hematology and oncology, Department of Medicine, Betsy Bramsen Professorship of Breast Oncology, professor of medicine (hematology and oncology), Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the rise of personalized treatment in breast cancer.

Ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla) was found to significantly reduce the risk of disease recurrence or death compared with trastuzumab (Herceptin) as an adjuvant treatment in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who have residual disease following neoadjuvant therapy.

A. Jo Chien, MD, discusses emerging agents and other developments in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, director of the Breast Oncology Program, medical director of the Clinical Research Unit, University of California, Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses novel agents in HER2-positive breast cancer.

A. Jo Chien, MD, associate clinical professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses treatment duration in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Silvia Chiara Formenti, MD, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell, associate director, Meyer Cancer Center, radiation oncologist-in-chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the recent progress with HER2-targeted therapy in the treatment of breast cancer.

Women with operable HER2-positive breast cancer had similar long-term survival outcomes with either concurrent or sequential chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting, according to newly published results from the phase III ACOSOG Z1041 trial.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, discusses central nervous system involvement in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, discusses de-escalation strategies in early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer and novel HER2-targeted therapies in development.

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, instructor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, attending physician of medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reflects on data from the PERSEPHONE trial in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Sara Hurvitz, MD, director of the Breast Oncology Program, medical director of the Clinical Research Unit, University of California, Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses HER2-targeted therapies for the treatment of breast cancer.

Rashmi K. Murthy, MD, assistant professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses de-escalation strategies for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the evolution of treatment for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, discusses developments in the treatment paradigms for patients with HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer.

Joseph A. Sparano, MD, associate director for clinical research, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center, discusses unmet needs in metastatic breast cancer.

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, instructor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, attending physician of medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the role of chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The guidelines for establishing HER2 status for patients with breast cancer with unclear results on initial testing have been finetuned in an update that the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the College of American Pathologists recently issued.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, discusses the current treatment landscape of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, the potential for immunotherapy, and what is on the horizon for patients in this population who develop brain metastases.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, director of the Breast Oncology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, advises how to navigate therapy for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Rashmi K. Murthy, MD, discusses selecting therapy for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer in the curative setting.