Breast Cancer
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: What’s new with HER2-neu inhibition
MIAMI BEACH – For women with HER2-positive disease, neoadjuvant therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin) was and is a game changer, improving...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Vaccines, combination therapy hold most promise for optimizing immunotherapy in breast cancer
MIAMI BEACH – Although typically not as immunogenic as melanoma or lung cancer, breast cancer can respond to immunotherapy.
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Registry studies reflect real patients in the real world
MIAMI BEACH – Studies using data from prospective registries provide valuable insights for investigators into diseases of real patients in real-...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: HER2+ patients may do fine with local therapies alone
MIAMI BEACH – Unquestionably, the advent of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) inhibitors has dramatically improved long-term...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Future therapies look promising for HER2 treatment-resistant breast cancer patients
Several antibody-drug conjugates and additional types of agents are showing promise for HER2 treatment-resistant breast cancer.
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Breast surgeons can and do provide genetic counseling to cancer patients
MIAMI BEACH – Breast surgeons are qualified to help counsel patients and already order more than half of breast cancer genetic sequencing.
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Resistance to endocrine therapy a moving target
MIAMI BEACH – Dr. William J. Gradishar discusses strategies for combating resistance to endocrine ablative therapy in a video interview.
Original Report
Posttreatment survivorship care needs of Spanish-speaking Latinas with breast cancer
Conference Coverage
Miami Breast Cancer Symposium to explore treatment controversies
Sessions will explore treatment controversies, such as omitting anthracyclines, extended-field radiation therapy, and who should be receiving...
Feature
Breast cancer mortality mapped for 2017
The highest death rate expected in West Virginia, lowest in Utah.
From the Journals
‘Strong evidence’ links obesity to cancers
A large umbrella review study of more than 200 meta-analyses finds that obesity is associated with a wide range of cancers.