BREAST CANCER

Findings from the phase 3 OlympiA led to the filing of a supplemental new drug application for olaparib as adjuvant treatment of BRCA-mutated HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.

The TROPION-Breast01 study aims to enroll 700 patients to determine the safety and efficacy of datopotamab deruxtecan in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD, discusses the phase 1 study of the efficacy of entinostat administered in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab for the treatment of locally advanced, metastatic, unresectable, or HER2-negative breast cancer.

A novel liquid biopsy for the detection of early-stage breast cancer has been granted a breakthrough device designation from the FDA.

The phase 2b AIPAC study, Eftilagimod alpha was found to improve overall survival in metastatic breast cancer along with a tolerable safety profile.

Elisa Agostinetto, MD, discusses the next steps in the research into the accuracy of PREDICT+ to predict survival in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Looking at 2 years' worth of data for patients with ERBB2-negative breast cancer, a study showed that the anti-inflammatory agent celecoxib had no disease free survival benefit.

Joseph A. Sparano, MD, who recently gave a talk during the 19th Annual School of Breast Oncology, discusses prolonging responses to therapy in patients with advanced breast cancer.

After showing significant improvement in survival, a breakthrough therapy designation application for leronlimab has been submitted to the FDA.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, in collaboration with AdventHealth Heart of Florida and Central Florida Cancer Institute, has received a 3-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

After discovering the potential of a prophylactic breast cancer vaccine, Cleveland Clinic will be the site of a phase 1 clinical trial to test its safety.

Margaret E. Gatti-Mays, MD, MPH, FACP, evaluates the evolution of immunotherapy in cases of breast cancer for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The extended use of aromatase inhibitor therapy beyond 5 years remains controversial. However, a new study found that extending letrozole use significantly improves disease-free survival in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer.

Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute has received a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Both the primary and key secondary end point of the phase 3 EMERALD study have been reached.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD, discussed the phase 1 investigation of the safety and efficacy of entinostat administered in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab for the treatment of advanced HER2-negative breast cancer.

New findings from the phase 3 monarchE recently led to an FDA approval for abemaciclib. Joyce O’Shaughnessy, MD, presented the long-term analysis results during an ESMO Virtual Plenary.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology for Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, O’Regan discussed how the metastatic breast cancer landscape has changed and suggested potential regimens that could further that change.

The combination of abemaciclib and endocrine therapy has been approved by the FDA as an adjuvant treatment for a subgroup of patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer.

Eight months after completion of adjuvant therapy for triple-negative breast cancer, a 48-year-old patient reported worsening fatigue.

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy of entinostat in patients with breast cancer.

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD, discusses the study design of the phase 1 trail evaluating entinostat, nivolumab, and ipilimumab in patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.

Komal Jhaveri, MD, discussed the case of a 63-year-old patient with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer during a Targeted Oncology Case-Base Roundtable event.

In the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 trial, pembrolizumab with chemotherapy challenged the standard of care for high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer with event-free survival improvement.

Genomic and biomarker testing is increasing at OneOncology community cancer centers across a number of tumor types.

In patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer, giredestrant resulted in a greater relative reduction in Ki67 score from baseline to week 2 of a window of opportunity phase vs anastrozole.

In the first-line setting for postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, the combination of ribociclib and letrozole demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit compared with letrozole alone.

Pathological complete response rates and event-free survival in patients with treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer were improved with The addition of carboplatin to neoadjuvant paclitaxel followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide.

The first patient with a locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor has been dosed with buparlisib in combination with A0025 with or without atezolizumab in a phase 1a clinical trial.

Adjuvant giredestrant is being evaluated in comparison with other endocrine therapies for the treatment of ER-positive, HER2-negative, early breast cancer.