Breast Cancer

Radiologists and data scientists decided to get together to evaluate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence and human observation when it comes to detecting breast cancer in mammograms.

For the first time, researchers have isolated a subtype of gamma-delta T-cells that offers protection in women with triple-negative breast cancer.

The combination of trilaciclib and chemotherapy was generally well–tolerated with promising activity in a phase II trial of patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

New guidelines for exercise for patients with cancer have been released.

The combined use of a CDK4/6 inhibitor with endocrine therapy yielded a 9.4-month median OS benefit among patients.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. Sara Hurvitz, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, about therapy options for breast cancer. 

The agency is set to make a decision on the investigational antibody drug conjugate by the first quarter of 2020.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. Peter Schmid about the KEYNOTE-522 trial.

Several clinicopathologic features of HER2-positive breast cancer patients were found to be associated with response to neoadjuvant therapy in a new study.

A new study looked at the characteristics of diagnosed breast cancer cases in San Francisco.

Serena Nik-Zainal, MD, discusses study findings that could change the way treatment strategies for subgroups of patients with triple-negative breast cancer are evaluated.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. William Wood on the clinical risk of chemotherapy in early breast cancer. 

Multigene testing for all woman diagnosed with breast cancer can be “extremely cost-effective.”

Dr. Rebecca Dent, oncologist at the National Cancer Center, Singapore, discusses the rationale for immunotherapy in early-stage breast cancer.

A 21-gene assay is effective in guiding the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early breast cancer.

Dr. Leisha Emens of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center discusses the overall survival in the KATE2 study.

A new analysis found overall survival may be worse for some male breast cancer patients.

The results of the TAILORx trial went against previous ideas that breast cancer patients with a high Oncotype score who needed chemotherapy and endocrine therapy wouldn't fare well.

The addition of the PARP inhibitor veliparib to carboplatin  and paclitaxel offered significant improvement to patients with HER2-negative breast cancer.

Remarkable gains have been made in breast cancer outcomes; however, racial disparities have contributed to breast cancer incidence.

A new study found men with breast cancer have higher mortality compared with women, possibly due to lack of awareness.

Two studies from ESMO have potentially found treatments which can improve survival in HR-positive breast cancer.

Adding the immunotherapy pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improved the pathological complete response rate in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer, according to findings of a study presented at ESMO.

A phase III study found that adding 2 years of ovarian function suppression to tamoxifen extended disease-free survival in certain patients with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.

Previous studies have found evidence onion and garlic may help prevent prostate, lung, and gastric cancers, but there was previously no definite association found between these foods and breast cancer.