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OncLive TV

Alberto J. Montero, MD, Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the PERTAIN study in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-positive, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The study looks at the impact of adding pertuzumab (Perjeta) to trastuzumab (Herceptin) in aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy.

Ruth O’Regan, MD, division head of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, discusses BELLE-3, a phase III study of buparlisib (BKM120) plus fulvestrant (Faslodex) in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, who progressed on or after mTOR inhibitor-based treatment and were treated with an aromatase inhibitor.

Nicolas Girard, MD, professor of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, and senior attending physician in the Thoracic Oncology Service of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, discusses the optimal methods to maximize the outcomes of crizitonib (Xalkori) when used as a treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Steven Buechler, PhD, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame, discusses independent validation of the EarlyR gene signature in the Breast International Group (BIG) 1-98 study. This randomized, double-blind, phase III trial compared letrozole with tamoxifen as an adjuvant endocrine therapy for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, early breast cancer

Cecile Pizot, biostatistician in epidemiology at the International Prevention Research Institute, discusses the changes in mortality rates in breast cancer around the world. In a study on 47 countries, 39 saw breast cancer mortality rates decline, but mortality rates were on the rise in Latin American and Asian countries.