Breast Cancer

A triplet regimen of tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine helped patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and brain metastases live longer with reduced disease progression compared with trastuzumab and capecitabine alone.

Nausea and upper GI discomfort are frequently linked with use of the oral SERD.

PI3K-pathway mutations may predict an increased risk of secondary uterine cancer in patients receiving tamoxifen to treat primary breast cancer.

Patients with various solid tumor types experienced improved antitumor immunity after adhering to a diet with severe caloric restrictions.

Updates from the ongoing INSEMA trial suggest that patients with early-stage breast cancer maintain superior quality of life by forgoing sentinel lymph node biopsy and axillary lymph node dissection.

Findings presented at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggest that Certain adverse effects associated with olaparib were minimal and resolved with appropriate management in patients with breast cancer.

Findings from a breast cancer analysis demonstrated that pathologic complete response and event-free survival rates were not significantly affected by patient’s race.

The introduction of adjuvant approaches reduced the risk of disease recurrence in HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer.

Treatment modifications were inconsistent among White and Black patients with breast cancer. However, the use of a multiscale biophysical modeling platform may be useful in informing treatment modification decisions.

Findings from a pooled efficacy and safety analysis support the use of palbociclib plus endocrine therapy in patients who are Black or Hispanic with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Aromatase inhibitors were revealed to be more effective than tamoxifen in reducing the rate of recurrence in ER+ breast cancer among premenopausal women receiving ovarian suppression.

The 24-month lymphedema rate was 39.4% among Black women, making it the highest incidence rate in any category.

Patients who received matched targeted therapy specific to their genomic alteration, as identified through multigene sequencing, experienced significantly improved progression-free survival.

Although White women and Black women carry similar rates of pathogenic variants, a study found that White women were almost 5 times more likely to undergo genetic counseling and testing.

Nuanced and multidisciplinary decision making are needed to optimize and personalize locoregional, systemic, and supportive care in metastatic breast cancer.

The implementation of the Oncology Nursing Society’s new Get Up, Get Moving Program helped patients increase their daily step intake and maintain their health-related quality of life.

The recently launched phase 2 ACE-Breast03 seeks to appraise the efficacy and safety of the novel antibody-drug conjugate, ARX788, in patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer whose disease is resistant to previous targeted therapies.

A recent study identified some of the key challenges in coordinated care for underinsured and uninsured cancer survivors who have initiated the surveillance stage of their journey.

Abemaciclib is the first and only FDA approved CDK4/6 inhibitor to treat HR-positive, HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine induces similar levels of COVID-19 antibodies in patients with solid cancer compared with people without cancer.

BIPOC patients diagnosed with breast cancer often face additional barriers–like health disparities, health literacy, and lack of knowledge of the psychosocial effects–in comparison to other ethnic groups.

A 4-year follow-up of patients with treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer who received carboplatin plus neoadjuvant paclitaxel, followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, suggests that the regime induces superior pathological complete response and event-free survival.

“We want to make sure we can provide the right treatment for the right patient at the right time,” says Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP, OON.

With a newfound abundance of available oral cancer therapies, it has become necessary for oncology nurses to ensure that their patients are adhering to treatment.

CDK4/6 inhibitors have demonstrated promise in treating patients with estrogen receptor (ER)–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in both a neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting.

The FDA has approved the first immunotherapy, pembrolizumab (Keytruda), to treat patients with high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

Study results have posited plinabulin as a potentially effective preventative and active therapy due to its unique mechanism of action.

Regardless of clinical risk, the survival prognosis of patients with early-stage breast cancer is high amongst those who have ultralow risk disease indicated by a 70-gene signature.

Sacituzumab govitecan, an antibody drug conjugate, maintained survival and response benefits over chemotherapy regimens.

Patients with BRCA1/2-mutant, early HER2-negative breast cancer at a high risk of recurrence saw a clinically meaningful benefit 1 year after standard of care when treated with olaparib.