MBCC | Conference

Independent variables, such as the burden of disease prior to treatment, molecular prognosis, sensitivity to chemotherapy, sensitivity to endocrine therapy, and sensitivity to other treatments could be effective in predicting risk of recurrence in patients with breast cancer.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, discussed a number of antibody-drug conjugates, detailing the prevailing data and potential trials that may change the treatment paradigm for patients with breast cancer.

Mandar Aras, MD, PhD, discussed the management and prevention of cardiotoxicity in patients receiving systemic therapy for breast cancer at the 38th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, hosted by Physicians’ Education Resource®, LLC.

Allowing for the use of antiemetic prophylaxis and anti-diarrheal medication in the phase 3 KX-ORAX-001 study reduced study drug-related gastrointestinal adverse events.

At the Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Debu Tripathy, MD, reviewed adaptive therapy for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer.

Data focusing on patients seeking breast surgical procedures determined that broad skill sets are valuable for general surgeons practicing in rural areas, as breast surgeries only represented a small proportion of total surgical procedures conducted.

The addition of neratinib to capecitabine improved progression-free survival and central nervous system outcomes in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with central nervous system disease.

More patients with early-stage estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer with high recurrence scores received chemotherapy following radiation in a single-institution study, and this resulted in a low recurrence rate across all patients examined.

The analysis of the KEYNOTE-119 study presented at the Miami Breast Cancer Conference, hosted by Physicians’ Education Resource®, LLC®, found trends estimating a significant role for tumor cell expression in PD-L1 as a predictive biomarker for pembrolizumab efficacy.

The clinical nurse specialist was also diagnosed with stage III invasive lobular breast cancer and was treated with CDK 4/6 inhibitors, giving her the unique opportunity to speak to both the patient and clinical perspective.