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Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses the updated data from the phase III SOPHIA trial for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had received prior anti-HER2 therapies, presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Adding the PARP inhibitor olaparib to neoadjuvant platinum based-chemotherapy was determined to be a safe treatment for patients with triple-negative breast cancer, as well as for patients with breast cancer whose tumors harbor germline BRCA mutations.

Almost half of patients with high-risk luminal-B breast cancer converted to a low risk of recurrence following chemotherapy-free neoadjuvant therapy, matching the performance of standard chemotherapy in small randomized trial.

The presence of circulating tumor DNA and circulating tumor cells following neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be an independent predictor of disease recurrence in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer.

Residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to be an accurate long-term predictor of disease recurrence and survival across all breast cancer subtypes.

The addition of encequidar (HM30181A) to oral paclitaxel is the first oral taxane regimen to result in an improvement in overall response rates as compared with an intravenous administration of paclitaxel in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Estrogen alone as menopausal hormone therapy was found to decrease breast cancer incidence in postmenopausal women.

Karen Pinilla Alba, MD, discusses the safety findings stages 1 and 2 of the phase II/III PARTNER trial in triple negative and/or germline BRCA-mutated breast cancer.

A durvalumab-based neoadjuvant regimen induced an impressive pathologic complete response rate in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Nancy Lin, MD, discusses the impact of neratinib on development and progression of central nervous system metastases in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Pierfranco Conte, MD, discusses the findings of the OlympiAD trial in BRCA-mutated HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using intensity-modulated radiotherapy is not significantly different from whole breast irradiation in preventing recurrence in patients with low-risk early breast cancer.

Olaparib continued to show a numerical overall survival (OS) benefit with a favorable hazard ratio for OS versus chemotherapy in patients with BRCA-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, according to an extended, exploratory follow-up analysis of the phase III OlympiAD trial.

A pathologic complete response to HER2-directed neoadjuvant therapy reduced the risk of recurrence in early HER2-positive breast cancer but did not eliminate it, supporting the common practice of continued anti-HER2 therapy.

Atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in combination with carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) did not lead to a statistically significant increase in pathologic complete response (pCR) rate compared with carboplatin/nab-paclitaxel alone in patients with early high-risk and locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer,

Maintenance durvalumab may improve outcomes versus chemotherapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer or those with PD-L1–positive breast cancer across several subtypes, according to exploratory analyses from the phase II randomized SAFIR02-IMMUNO trial presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The aromatase inhibitor anastrozole maintained a preventive effect for postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer nearly 12 years after discontinuing treatment.

Patients with triple-negative breast cancer have greater rates of pathologic complete responses when pembrolizumab is added to neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy. Furthermore, these benefits are observed across patient subgroups, most notably in those patients with stage III and/or node-positive disease.

Real-world data for frontline palbociclib indicate that the positive progression-free survival data observed with the CDK4/6 inhibitor in the pivotal PALOMA-2 trial would likely translate to an overall survival benefit in patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer

Rashmi K. Murthy, MD, MBE, discusses results of the HER2CLIMB trial in previously treated HER2-positive breast cancer.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, associate professor of medicine and medical oncologist, University of California Los Angeles, discusses the use of antibody-drug conjugates in HER2-positive breast cancer.

The first reported data for adjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine in early HER2-positive breast cancer showed high rates of disease control in a randomized trial designed to compare toxicities with trastuzumab and paclitaxel.

Margetuximab continued to show a clear progression-free survival benefit and a trend toward an overall survival benefit versus trastuzumab (Herceptin) when either agent was combined with chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had received prior anti-HER2 therapies.

Adjuvant pertuzumab (Perjeta) with trastuzumab (Herceptin) plus chemotherapy showed a 0.9% improvement in overall survival and continued to reduce the risk of disease recurrence in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Adding tucatinib to trastuzumab (Herceptin) and capecitabine (Xeloda) reduced the risk of death by 34% in heavily pretreated patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

Adding the novel oral fluoropyrimidine derivative S-1 to adjuvant endocrine therapy significantly improved invasive disease-free survival for Japanese patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; DS-8201) induced a confirmed objective response rate of almost 61% and a durable benefit in heavily pretreated patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer.

More than three times as many patients with transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma remained alive and progression free after >3 years when they received daratumumab (Darzalex) in addition to standard first-line therapy.

The CAR T cell therapy bb21217 demonstrated high very good partial response or better rates in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

A majority of adult patients with β-thalassemia who require regular red blood cell transfusions experienced clinically meaningful and durable transfusion burden reduction associated with luspatercept (Reblozyl).