San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Adding the tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib to standard aromatase inhibitor therapy with letrozole doubled PFS compared with letrozole alone in women with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD,discusses the CALGB 40603 trial, a neoadjuvant triple-negative breast cancer trial.

Women aged 65 and older with hormone receptor-positive, axillary node-negative breast cancer may be able to forego radiation therapy after breast conserving surgery if they are treated with hormonal therapy and considered to be at low risk for breast cancer recurrence.

C. Kent Osborne, MD, professor of medicine and molecular and cell biology, Baylor College of Medicine, discusses the impact of the results of the PRIME 2 trial, which looked at radiotherapy after surgery in women over 65 years old with breast cancer.

The benefit of screening mammography is more consistent across studies than has previously been thought, according to an analysis of key screening studies presented at the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

New evidence suggests that HER2-positive breast cancer may not only be immunogenic, but also that trastuzumab may relieve suppression of antitumor immunity.

Jennifer Litton, MD, associate professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the results of the BETH trial.

Sherene Loi, MD, PhD, on the association between immune cells and a pathologic complete response in patients with breast cancer after being given chemotherapy and trastuzumab.

Presentations at the 36th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) will tackle key topics and questions regarding the treatment of breast cancer.

Christopher Twelves, MD, Professor and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, University of Leeds, highlights key findings from the 2012 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, which took place in December 2012.

William J. Gradishar, MD, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, describes the need to enrich the patient population in a clinical trial that is investigating a novel targeted therapy.

William J. Gradishar, MD, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, describes results from the 301 Study that compared eribulin mesylate to capecitabine for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, from the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the final analysis of overall survival for the phase III CONFIRM trial.

Edith A. Perez, MD, from the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Florida, reviews clinical trials that are investigating the optimal adjuvant treatment for patients with breast cancer.

William J. Gradishar, MD, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, reviews results from the phase III LEA trial that investigated add-on bevacizumab in breast cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses a phase II trial that examined the CDK inhibitor PD 0332991 for women with advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

Edith A. Perez, MD, from the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Florida, discusses the results of a phase III study comparing the efficacy of eribulin mesylate to capecitabine in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

William J. Gradishar, MD, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses results from the international ATLAS study that was presented at the 2012 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, describes key takeaway points for practicing oncologists, clinical investigators, and scientists from the 2012 SABCS.

Photos from the 35th annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX, from December 4-8, 2012.

The mental toll and stress of a breast cancer diagnosis might factor into the cognitive impairment experienced during chemotherapy treatment, commonly referred to as "chemo brain."

Christopher Twelves, MD, discusses results from a phase III trial that compared capecitabine to eribulin mesylate in women with metastatic breast cancer.

Justin M. Balko, PharmD, PhD, from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses research into clinically targetable genetic alterations in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Long-term follow-up results showed that the hypofractionated regimens were as effective as the 50-Gy standard in women with early-stage breast cancer.

Eight-year follow-up data from the phase III HERA trial has confirmed that 1-year of adjuvant trastuzumab should remain the treatment standard in women with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer.

John Yarnold, MBBS, from The Institute of Cancer Research in London, discusses results from the START trials that examined hypofractionated radioatherapy for women with early breast cancer.

Patients with triple-negative breast cancer had no statistically significant improvement in disease-free survival when they received adjuvant treatment with chemotherapy plus 1 year of bevacizumab.

Brian Leyland-Jones, MBBS, PhD, discusses results from the phase III HERA trial that compared 2 years of adjuvant trastuzumab to the standard 1 year in HER2-postive early-stage breast cancer.