Breast Cancer

Research presented this week at ESMO studied the efficacy of biosimilars to trastuzumab compared with the reference product in breast cancer.

Researchers tested whether combining chemotherapy with immunotherapy would offer improved survival for patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

In this study, researchers evaluated changes in CVD risk factors and 10-year CVD risk from before to after a breast cancer diagnosis, and compared it with women who remained free of such a diagnosis.

While becoming pregnant is generally possible for younger breast cancer patients, researchers believe many women change their minds after treatment.

In premenopausal patients with early breast cancer, approximately one-sixth are not adequately adherent to adjuvant endocrine therapy.

This article discusses the advances in HER2-targeted therapy, in both the metastatic and adjuvant settings, with a focus on those with early-stage breast cancer.

An otherwise healthy 58-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer presents to the clinic with newly diagnosed metastatic disease; eventual abdominal CT showed a mass in the transverse colon with ascites and peritoneal nodularity. What is the best initial systemic treatment for her?

Dr. Sparano discusses the implications of TAILORx, the first trial to use Oncotype DX in clinical decision making.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers analyzed how Twitter users talk about breast cancer on the social media platform.

We take a look at how a healthy diet can improve quality of life in breast cancer survivors.

A novel cancer vaccine targeting HER2-positive malignancies has progressed quickly from mouse trials into early-phase human trials, with promising results.

Different cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens are associated with varying rates of hospitalization following their use in older women with stage IV breast cancer.

The Short-HER study was unable to show noninferiority of 9 weeks of trastuzumab compared with the standard 1 year in women with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Nearly 10 years of follow-up from a large clinical trial have confirmed that axillary dissection is not necessary in patients with early breast cancer.

Survival has increased substantially for young women with breast cancer since 1975, though it has largely reached a plateau since around 2005.

Breast and gynecologic cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy may experience improvement in cancer-related fatigue with integrative medicine approaches.

A new laboratory study has shed some light on how mitochondrial metabolism is altered in breast cancer.

Outcomes for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer did not differ when treated with sequential chemotherapy plus trastuzumab compared with a concurrent approach.

A 17-gene signature derived from circulating tumor cells was found to correlate with response to therapy in patients with breast cancer.

Treatment with talazoparib improved quality of life vs physician’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

A study using multigene panel testing identified several pathogenic variants associated with an increased risk of triple-negative breast cancer.

This article will present feasible weight loss interventions, and will discuss practical implications of ongoing chemotherapy and endocrine therapy with regard to weight gain, and the impact of obesity on therapy-related conditions during breast cancer survivorship.

A chest wall recurrence of breast cancer following mastectomy is a complex clinical problem that can push centers to the limits of their resources.

The presence of HER3 expression and a high HER2/CEP17 ratio distinguish a group of invasive HER2-positive ductal breast cancer patients who have a worse prognosis.

Patients treated with anti–PD-1 or anti–PD-L1 inhibitors in clinical trials were successfully retreated with the inhibitors after discontinuing the treatment.