Breast Cancer Preventive Effects of Anastrozole Persist Long After Stopping Treatment
SAN ANTONIO — Breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal women at high risk for developing the disease continued to be...
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Partial Breast Irradiation May be as Effective as Whole Breast Irradiation in Preventing Recurrence in Patients with Early Breast Cancer
10-year follow-up data supports earlier findings on recurrence and survival SAN ANTONIO — A 10-year follow-up study of breast...
Neoadjuvant Treatment with Pembrolizumab Improves Pathologic Complete Response Rates for Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer with Lymph Node Involvement
SAN ANTONIO — The addition of the anti-PD-1 immunotherapeutic pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy increased the rates of pathologic complete response (pCR)...
Combining Endocrine Therapy with a CDK4/6 Inhibitor Results In Similar Response Rates to Chemotherapy for High-Risk Luminal B Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO — Neoadjuvant treatment with the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib (Kisqali) and the aromatase inhibitor letrozole (Femara) produced response...
New HER2 Antibody-drug Conjugate Yielded Promising Clinical Responses in Breast Cancer Patients Pretreated with T-DM1
SAN ANTONIO — The investigational HER2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate [Fam-] trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) demonstrated durable objective responses in patients with...
Updated APHINITY Trial Data Show Addition of Pertuzumab to Trastuzumab Plus Chemotherapy Continues to Yield Clinical Benefit in Patients With Operable HER2-positive Early Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO — Data from six-year analysis of the APHINITY trial showed that adding pertuzumab to the previous standard of trastuzumab...
Addition of S-1 to Post-operative Endocrine Therapy Improves Outcomes for Patients with Hormone Receptor-positive, HER2-negative Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO — A post-operative combination of S-1, an oral fluoropyrimidine-based drug, with endocrine therapy significantly increased invasive disease-free survival...
BRAF Inhibitor Shows Promising Results in Pediatric Patients with Low-Grade Glioma
PHILADELPHIA — Dabrafenib (Tafinlar), a BRAF inhibitor approved to treat certain types of adult melanoma, showed activity in pediatric...
Anti-CTLA-4 Antibody Tremelimumab Shows Efficacy in Patients With Metastatic Bladder Cancer
PHILADELPHIA — Treatment with the investigational anti-CTLA-4 agent tremelimumab showed clinical responses in patients with pretreated metastatic bladder cancer,...
Commercial Prognostic Tests for Prostate Cancer May Not Be Accurate in African American Men
PHILADELPHIA — Commercial gene expression tests that guide treatment decisions for prostate cancer may not accurately predict risk of...