San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)

This video highlights four abstracts from SABCS investigating the use of hereditary gene panels and methods to predict prognosis in male breast cancer.

Disease-free survival after 9 weeks of adjuvant trastuzumab and standard chemotherapy was not comparable to disease-free survival after 1 year of adjuvant trastuzumab and standard chemotherapy for women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer. 

After undergoing 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy, 2 years of extended anastrozole proved as effective as 5 years for preventing breast cancer recurrence among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer, according to the results of the ABCSG-16 phase III trial.

A study found that circulating tumor cells are predictive of late recurrence in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer.

An antibody–drug conjugate known as sacituzumab govitecan demonstrated significant clinical activity in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to a new study.

Treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog can safely and effectively protect ovarian function and has the potential to preserve fertility in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer.

Adding vistusertib to fulvestrant failed to demonstrate a benefit over everolimus in patients with ER-positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Undergoing acupuncture significantly reduced joint pain related to treatment with aromatase inhibitors in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer.

Adding trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy did not result in improved rates of invasive disease-free survival in patients with early-stage breast cancer and low levels of HER2 expression, according to a new study.

Increasing chemotherapy dose intensity reduced the risk of recurrence and death over standard chemotherapy regimens, according to a meta-analysis of women with early-stage breast cancer. 

The addition of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to endocrine therapy with either tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor significantly improved progression-free survival among premenopausal and perimenopausal women with breast cancer.

The combination of pembrolizumab and trastuzumab showed promising clinical benefit in patients with trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive advanced breast cancer who express PD-L1, according to a new study.

A study found no difference in outcomes between 2 and 5 years of treatment with zoledronate after chemotherapy in early breast cancer patients, suggesting the longer duration may not be necessary.

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes have significantly higher expression of PD-L1 in pregnancy-associated breast cancer compared to nulliparous breast cancer patients. This may help predict response to therapy, among other outcomes.

Over the long term, local recurrence is more likely in young women with invasive breast cancer who undergo breast conserving surgery compared with those who undergo mastectomy, though survival is no different.

Postmenopausal women with breast cancer who took aromatase inhibitors (AI) had endothelial dysfunction, according to the results of a study.

With the help of a scalp-cooling device, 50% of women with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy were able to prevent hair loss, according to the results of the SCALP trial.

Adding the PARP inhibitor veliparib to carboplatin and paclitaxel chemotherapy significantly increased response rates among women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, according to a randomized phase II trial.

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) measured by liquid biopsy was able to identify actionable mutations and provide a real-time molecular assessment of metastatic breast cancer, according to a new study.

In a potential step toward precision endocrine therapy, a new study found that certain single nucleotide polymorphisms within CSMD1 are associated with changes in estrogen levels in postmenopausal breast cancer patients.

Treatment with buparlisib in combination with endocrine therapy significantly improved PFS compared with placebo in patients with HR-positive advanced breast cancer that had progressed after treatment with everolimus plus exemestane.

The addition of estrogen deprivation to neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not significantly affect pathologic complete response in women with HR-positive, HER2-positive breast cancer.

The addition of everolimus to fulvestrant was associated with more than a doubling of progression-free survival in women with metastatic hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who were resistant to aromatase inhibitor therapy.

Whole exome and transcriptome sequencing found that the genomic landscape of estrogen receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer differs from that of primary tumors.

In this interview we discuss breast cancer prevention and risk assessments, including the questions these assessments aim to answer, what classifies someone as average or high risk, and appropriate next steps for patients who fall in these categories.

We are speaking with Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD, on developing genomics-based biomarkers to identify the presence of cancer cells for prognosis and predicting response to cancer therapies.

Two studies of the new HER2 selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor ONT-380 showed the drug has promising activity in HER2-positive breast cancer and especially in patients with central nervous system metastases.

T-DM1 improved survival in women with HER2-positive breast cancer, even after treatment with two or more other HER2-targeted therapies including trastuzumab and lapatinib.

Women with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast-conserving therapy had significantly improved 10-year overall survival compared with women who underwent mastectomy without radiation therapy.

A preclinical study looking at ER-positive breast cancer indicated that tamoxifen response was improved by reducing levels of the enzyme APOBEC3B and worsened by increasing levels of the enzyme.