Therapies for Patients With HR-Positive Breast Cancer
Hyman B. Muss, MD, professor of oncology, University of North Carolina, director, Geriatric Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, gives an overview of therapies for patients with HR-positive breast cancer.
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Hyman B. Muss, MD, professor of oncology, University of North Carolina, director, Geriatric Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, gives an overview of therapies for patients with HR-positive breast cancer. Muss discussed this topic in a talk at the31st Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®.
- Exemestane can extend the time of disease control substantially with some risk of toxicities.
- Data have shown that biologic agents and traditional endocrine therapy can work together for possibly much better outcomes.
- Pharmaceutical companies have begun to develop new compounds and analyze models of enhancing endocrine therapy with biologic agents.
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