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Patricia A. Ganz, MD, discusses the quality of life results from the phase 3 OlympiA trial in BRCA-mutated breast cancer.

Megan Kruse, MD, discusses the results of a study comparing clinical features and outcomes of pleomorphic vs non-pleomorphic invasive lobular carcinoma.

Fulvestrant plus the CDK7 inhibitor samuraciclib demonstrated encouraging efficacy in patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer who were heavily pretreated with CDK4/6 inhibitors.

Second-line lisocabtagene maraleucel demonstrated a favorable improvement in most patient-reported outcome domains compared with standard of care in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, and health-related quality of life was found to either be improved or maintained following treatment with the CAR T-cell therapy.

Physicians treating patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer should employ circulating tumor DNA testing early and often, according to results from the phase 2 cTRAK TN trial.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan led to prolonged progression-free survival and higher responses vs trastuzumab emtansine as second-line therapy in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer across all patients subgroups, including those with and without baseline brain metastases.

Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, discusses additional results from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 trial in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, discusses the results of subgroup analyses from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast03 trial in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Pyrotinib plus capecitabine exhibited longer overall survival (OS), compared with lapatinib plus capecitabine, in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer

Not only is the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting bursting with more than 5000 abstracts unveiling pivotal data across a range of hematologic malignancies and disorders, but the conference will be held as a hybrid format after going fully virtual in 2020.

Prior research has shown that the combination of trastuzumab deruxtecan plus pertuzumab may be superior to T-trastuzumab deruxtecan alone in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and the combination is now under examination in the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast09 trial.

Adjuvant treatment with neratinib or ado-trastuzumab emtansine resulted in a greater reduction in the risk of disease recurrence compared with other therapies in an epidemiologic model of HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer.

The addition of the bispecific antibody zanidatamab to single-agent chemotherapy was found to produce promising antitumor activity with acceptable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Significant outcome differences were observed in premenopausal vs postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who had 1 to 3 positive lymph nodes and received adjuvant chemotherapy as well as endocrine therapy.

A non-chemotherapy–based targeted regimen comprised of tucatinib, palbociclib, and letrozole resulted in prolonged central nervous system progression-free survival in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive breast cancer.

Aromatase inhibitors significantly reduced the risk of breast cancer recurrence in premenopausal women with estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer receiving ovarian suppression compared with tamoxifen.

Black patients with breast cancer were more likely to experience treatment modifications or discontinuations in the neoadjuvant setting compared with White patients.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, discusses updated results from the phase 3 RxPONDER trial in patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

First-line treatment with ribociclib/letrozole improved overall survival over placebo in patients with postmenopausal, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, irrespective of metastatic site, number of sites, or prior (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy and endocrine therapy.

Survey data collected from more than 1400 laboratories around the world have demonstrated poor agreement in the evaluation of patients with breast cancer who have a low HER2 immunohistochemistry score of 0 or 1+ using standard HER2 assays.

Higher Oncotype DX recurrence scores were associated with prolonged persistence to 5 years of endocrine therapy vs lower Oncotype DX recurrence scores in patients with low-risk, estrogen receptor-positive/progesterone receptor–positive breast cancer, according to findings from a retrospective review.

Aileen I. Fernandez, PhD, discusses the results of a study examining low HER2 expression in breast cancer.

Datopotamab deruxtecan showed highly encouraging and durable efficacy through overall response rates in patients with advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The combination of entinostat and exemestane led to a significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo and exemestane in Chinese patients with advanced hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in event-free survival in patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancer.

Adding adjuvant palbociclib to standard endocrine therapy did not improve outcomes in patients with stage II to III hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in both progression-free survival and overall survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with previously untreated, locally recurrent, inoperable, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have a PD-L1 combined positive score of 10 or higher.

Metformin failed to improve invasive disease-free survival or overall survival when used as adjuvant treatment in patients with early breast cancer, irrespective of estrogen or progesterone receptor status.

Patients with primary breast cancer who developed secondary uterine cancer following treatment with tamoxifen may have had disease driven by PI3K-pathway activation.

Patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with rising ESR1 mutations previously treated with an aromatase inhibitor plus palbociclib had a doubling of progression-free survival when switched to fulvestrant plus palbociclib before disease progression, according to findings from the phase 3 PADA-1 trial.