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Younger patients with breast cancer who underwent lumpectomy had better quality of life than women who had a mastectomy.

Women who took part in a supervised exercise program during adjuvant treatment for breast cancer had better cardiovascular function than women who did not participate in the program.

The combination of palbociclib and trastuzumab demonstrated safety and efficacy in patients with advanced estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-positive breast cancer.

Oxybutynin helped to reduce the frequency and intensity of hot flashes among women who could not take hormone replacement therapy in survivorship.

Combining the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax with endocrine therapy elicited notable activity with a tolerable safety profile in patients with estrogen receptor–positive and BCL-2–positive metastatic breast cancer.

Laura Spring, MD, medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses the association between pathologic complete response (pCR) and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Roberto A. Leon Ferre, MD, oncologist, Mayo Clinic, discusses the randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of oxybutynin chloride in the management of hot flashes in patients with breast cancer at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Additional analyses from the SOLAR-1 study show that alpelisib, an investigational alpha-specific PI3K inhibitor, combined with fulvestrant extended progression-free survival compared with fulvestrant alone in patients with PIK3CA-mutant advanced breast cancer regardless of line of therapy or prior CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment.

U3-1402, an investigational antibody-drug conjugate targeting HER3, induced objective response in more than 40% of heavily pretreated patients with HER3-expressing breast cancer.

Axillary radiotherapy was associated with locoregional control comparable to that with axillary lymph node dissection in patients with early-stage breast cancer who had a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy.

Accelerated partial breast irradiation following lumpectomy was marginally not found to be equivalent to whole breast irradiation to control ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence.

A longer duration of chemotherapy exposure was possible in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who received trilaciclib, an investigational CDK4/6 inhibitor, in addition to gemcitabine and carboplatin (GC) compared with GC alone.

The use of low-dose tamoxifen was shown to significantly reduce the risk of new and recurrent disease following surgery in women diagnosed with breast intraepithelial neoplasia but it did not cause more serious adverse events compared with placebo.

The use of circulating tumor-cell counts demonstrated strong value for selecting endocrine therapy versus chemotherapy for patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Francois-Clement Bidard, MD, PhD, professor, medical oncologist, Institut Curie, discusses the clinical utility of circulating tumor cell count (CTC) in breast cancer at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Frank A. Vicini, MD, radiation oncologist, 21st Century Oncology of Michigan, compares the use of partial breast irradiation (PBI) with that of whole breast irradiation (WBI) in women with early-stage breast cancer at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Improvements observed in progression-free survival and overall survival with the addition of first-line atezolizumab to nab-paclitaxel in patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer or inoperable locally advanced TNBC are exclusive to those patients with PD-L1 expression ≥1% in immune cells.

Delayed treatment with chemotherapy of more than 30 days after surgery for patients with triple-negative breast cancer is associated with worse survival rates and outcomes than those who receive adjuvant chemotherapy within 30 days of their procedure.

Jennifer Litton, MD, associate professor in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a neoadjuvant study of talazoparib (Talzenna) for patients with BRCA1/2 mutated triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) during the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Dawn Hershman, MD, MS, professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, leader of the breast cancer program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, discusses the association between cardiovascular medication and cardiovascular events following a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer during the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Pathologic complete response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy appeared to be associated with improved survival outcomes among patients with breast cancer.

Adjuvant treatment with capecitabine in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer did not significantly improve disease-free or overall survival compared with observation, according to results from the phase III GEICAM/CIBOMA trial that were presented at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Ado-trastuzumab emtansine reduced the risk of invasive disease recurrence or death by 50% compared with trastuzumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who had residual invasive disease following neoadjuvant therapy.

The combination of venetoclax and rituximab for relapsed/refractor chronic lymphoblastic leukemia produced high rates of undetectable minimal residual disease, which was associated with prolonged progression-free survival, a new analysis of a randomized trial showed.

A multitude of BCMA-targeted CAR T-cell therapies are currently in development, each demonstrating different efficacy and safety profiles and each with different constructs.

A newly discovered recurrent mutation in the B-cell leukemia/lymphoma 2 protein mediates clinical resistance to venetoclax in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The triplet of daratumumab, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 44% compared with lenalidomide plus dexamethasone in newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma who were not candidates for high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplant.

Rivaroxaban may significantly reduce venous thromboembolism occurrence among patients actively being treated with systemic therapy, according to results from the phase IIIb CASSINI trial.

Patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphoblastic leukemia treated with single-agent venetoclax attained high rates of minimal residual disease in peripheral blood and bone marrow.

The combination of ibrutinib and rituximab significantly improved overall survival and progression-free survival compared with standard fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab for younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.