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Breast Cancer Chair
Senior Vice President and Director
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch
Professor
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch
Hurvitz started her pursuit of medicine in 1990 when she enrolled at the University of California, Irvine, and went on to earn dual degrees in biology and psychology. Hurvitz is a medical oncologist, clinical research leader, and senior vice president of the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutch and head of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Washington Department of Medicine. Hurvitz specializes in the treatment of women with breast cancer. She is involved in constructing and implementing several national clinical trials testing new therapies while studying gene expression patterns in a variety of breast cancer populations to develop novel therapies.
CancerNetwork® sat down with Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about multidisciplinary care with geriatrician oncologists and the use of age-based analyses for diagnosis and following up of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
CancerNetwork®’s podcast dissected a review article published in the journal ONCOLOGY® on the 21-gene recurrence score in patients with node-positive breast cancer.
CancerNetwork® spoke with Dr. Sara Hurvitz, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, about therapy options for breast cancer.
During the 2018 Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Dr. Sara Hurvitz discussed current management options for patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.
Without question, targeted therapies have revolutionized the treatment of cancer across histologies.
CancerNetwork speaks with Dr. Sara Hurvitz, director of the breast cancer program at the University of California in Los Angeles. Dr. Hurvitz is actively involved in translational phase I/II breast cancer clinical trials as well as in research to better define distinct types of breast tumors to better design novel targeted therapies.
