Breast Cancer

Tiffany A. Traina, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the FDA approval of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu; DS-8201) for patients with HER2-positive, locally advanced, or metastatic breast cancer who have been treated with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) and have disease progression after ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla).

Lisa Newman, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCO, and Alan B. Astrow, MD, discuss the need for systemic therapy in women with microinvasive triple-negative breast cancer and more intensive adjuvant therapy in women with intermediate-risk hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Mathematical modeling was unable to harmonize the VENTANA SP263 and Dako 22C3 PD-L1 assays with the FDA-approved VENTANA PD-L1 SP142 companion diagnostic for the selection of patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer appropriate for atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel.

Patients with premenopausal breast cancer and discordant clinical and genomic risk had a small increase in distant metastasis if they did not receive adjuvant chemotherapy, according to a post hoc analysis of the MINDACT trial.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses the updated data from the phase III SOPHIA trial for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had received prior anti-HER2 therapies, presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Adding the PARP inhibitor olaparib to neoadjuvant platinum based-chemotherapy was determined to be a safe treatment for patients with triple-negative breast cancer, as well as for patients with breast cancer whose tumors harbor germline BRCA mutations.

Almost half of patients with high-risk luminal-B breast cancer converted to a low risk of recurrence following chemotherapy-free neoadjuvant therapy, matching the performance of standard chemotherapy in small randomized trial.

The presence of circulating tumor DNA and circulating tumor cells following neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be an independent predictor of disease recurrence in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer.

Residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to be an accurate long-term predictor of disease recurrence and survival across all breast cancer subtypes.

The addition of encequidar (HM30181A) to oral paclitaxel is the first oral taxane regimen to result in an improvement in overall response rates as compared with an intravenous administration of paclitaxel in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Estrogen alone as menopausal hormone therapy was found to decrease breast cancer incidence in postmenopausal women.

Karen Pinilla Alba, MD, discusses the safety findings stages 1 and 2 of the phase II/III PARTNER trial in triple negative and/or germline BRCA-mutated breast cancer.

A durvalumab-based neoadjuvant regimen induced an impressive pathologic complete response rate in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Pierfranco Conte, MD, discusses the findings of the OlympiAD trial in BRCA-mutated HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using intensity-modulated radiotherapy is not significantly different from whole breast irradiation in preventing recurrence in patients with low-risk early breast cancer.

Olaparib continued to show a numerical overall survival (OS) benefit with a favorable hazard ratio for OS versus chemotherapy in patients with BRCA-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, according to an extended, exploratory follow-up analysis of the phase III OlympiAD trial.

Atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in combination with carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) did not lead to a statistically significant increase in pathologic complete response (pCR) rate compared with carboplatin/nab-paclitaxel alone in patients with early high-risk and locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer,

Maintenance durvalumab may improve outcomes versus chemotherapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer or those with PD-L1–positive breast cancer across several subtypes, according to exploratory analyses from the phase II randomized SAFIR02-IMMUNO trial presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The aromatase inhibitor anastrozole maintained a preventive effect for postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer nearly 12 years after discontinuing treatment.

Patients with triple-negative breast cancer have greater rates of pathologic complete responses when pembrolizumab is added to neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy. Furthermore, these benefits are observed across patient subgroups, most notably in those patients with stage III and/or node-positive disease.

Real-world data for frontline palbociclib indicate that the positive progression-free survival data observed with the CDK4/6 inhibitor in the pivotal PALOMA-2 trial would likely translate to an overall survival benefit in patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer