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Breast Cancer

Across the MONALEESA-2, -3, and -7 clinical trials, first-line treatment with endocrine therapy and ribociclib mitigated negative effects on quality of life, global health scores, pain, and emotional functioning. Read More ›

Adding palbociclib to fulvestrant as first-line therapy improves 1-year progression-free survival in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, endocrine-sensitive, advanced breast cancer. Read More ›

In addition to the significant benefit observed in the MONARCH 2 study across first- and second-line treatment, marked effects were observed in patients with less encouraging prognostic indicators. Read More ›

In this real-world retrospective study, more patients in the ribociclib cohort compared with palbociclib and abemaciclib maintained starting doses and fewer patients decreased to 50% of the starting dose. Read More ›

Real-world data showed that patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving palbociclib had a numerically higher rate of neutropenia than patients receiving ribociclib. Read More ›

Adding the oral cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)4/CDK6 inhibitor abemaciclib (Verzenio) to endocrine therapy led to a significant reduction in the risk for invasive disease recurrence versus endocrine therapy alone in patients with high-risk hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer, according to findings from the phase 3 monarchE clinical trial. The results were presented at the 2020 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) virtual meeting and were featured at the meeting press conference. Read More ›

Initiating annual breast cancer screening at 40 years of age may reduce mortality rates in women, according to study results published August 12, 2020, in the journal The Lancet Oncology (Duffy SW, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2020;21:1165-1172). Starting earlier screening also did not result in overdiagnosis. Read More ›

The results of an online questionnaire of 609 breast cancer survivors in the Unites States suggest that almost 50% experienced delays in care during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was published online on August 9, 2020, in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (Papautsky EL, et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Aug 9. Epub ahead of print). Read More ›

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared with chemotherapy alone as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) whose tumors express PD-L1. Read More ›

Early locoregional therapy with surgery and radiation does not improve overall survival (OS) in women with newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer and an intact primary tumor compared with systemic therapy alone, according to the results of the randomized ECOG-ACRIN E2108 phase 3 clinical trial. The results were presented by lead investigator Seema A. Khan, MD, FACS, MPH, Co-Leader, Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, at the plenary session of the ASCO 2020 virtual annual meeting. Read More ›

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