Breast Cancer

Six-year data from the OlympiA trial support olaparib as a standard of care in BRCA-mutated, high-risk, HER2-negative primary breast cancer.

Time to next treatment was slightly higher with elacestrant for patients with HR+/HER2–, ESR1-mutant breast cancer vs PFS in a phase 3 trial.

For patients with hormone receptor-positive and HER2-low breast cancer, T-DXd elicited higher levels of PFS despite time to progression and disease burden.

Findings from a multi-institutional study show an increased risk of developing high-grade immune-related AEs among select older patients with early-stage breast cancer.

According to a retrospective study, patients with the BRCA gene who underwent risk-reducing mastectomy/salpingo-oophorectomy had improved survival outcomes.

Data from KEYNOTE-522 show improved efficacy with pembrolizumab/chemotherapy across subgroups of patients with TNBC.

Meta-analysis data show moderate decreases in distant recurrence and breast cancer mortality with immediate surgery after longer follow-up.

The European Commission has approved ribociclib plus an aromatase inhibitor for patients with early breast cancer.

Camizestrant showed better progression-free survival than fulvestrant across various subgroups of patients with advanced breast cancer.

Treatment with (Z)-endoxifen yielded no changes in hematological safety tests among patients enrolled on the phase 2 KARISMA-Endoxifen study.

Inavolisib-based therapy reaches the primary end point of the phase 3 INAVO120 study among patients with PIK3CA-mutated breast cancer.

Findings speak to the need of cultural, racial, and ethnic inclusion when designing breast cancer trials and developing patient-reported outcome measures.

Four of 13 patients with metastatic breast cancer recruited in 2022 for the phase 2 clinical study evaluating Bria-IMT remain in survival follow-up.

Heather Zinkin, MD, states that reflexology improved pain from chemotherapy-induced neuropathy in patients undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Neil M. Iyengar, MD, highlighted the most important data in breast cancer to come from 2024 ESMO.

Study findings reveal that patients with breast cancer reported overall improvement in their experience when receiving reflexology plus radiotherapy.

Patients undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer were offered 15-minute nurse-led reflexology sessions to increase energy and reduce stress and pain.

Bin Gui, MD, discussed how ultra-hypofractionated radiotherapy may be a convenient treatment option for elderly patients with early breast cancer.

Data from the INAVO120 trial support the approval of the inavolisib combination for those with PIK3CA-mutant breast cancer.

Phase 2 data indicate that the use of DetermaIO was predictive of a pathologic complete response with the addition of immunotherapy to chemotherapy in TNBC.

Whole or accelerated partial breast ultra-hypofractionated radiation in older patients with early breast cancer may reduce recurrence with low toxicity.

Ultra-hypofractionated radiation in those 65 years or older with early breast cancer yielded no ipsilateral recurrence after a 10-month follow-up.

Investigators report no grade 4 adverse effects among patients who received elacestrant/abemaciclib in the phase 1b/2 ELECTRA trial.

The unclear role of hypofractionated radiation in older patients with early breast cancer in prior trials incentivized research for this group.

Concurrent chemoradiation yielded similar contralateral breast recurrence outcomes vs a sequential approach in early-stage breast cancer.