Breast Cancer

Study shows there are 2.5 times more breast cancer survivors since the last estimate was conducted in 2007.

Dr McHayleh provides an overview of HR+/HER2- breast cancer treatment strategies and practices.

Alisa Vinokurov, PharmD, and Wassim McHayleh, MD, MBA, FACP, discuss pharmacists’ evolving role in treatment management for breast cancer.

Dr Vinokurov illustrates the evolving role of pharmacists in HR+/HER2- breast cancer treatment.

Wassim McHayleh, MD, MBA, FACP, and Alisa Vinokurov, PharmD, discuss HR+/HER2- breast cancer.

Study finds little evidence to support the long-standing recommendation that women with a first-degree family relative diagnosed with breast cancer should get screened 10 years earlier.

Camizestrant is a next-generation oral SERD and pure Erα antagonist that has demonstrated anti-cancer activity across a range of preclinical models, including in patients with ER-activating mutations.

Results demonstrate improved progression-free survival in the overall patient population and in a prespecified biomarker subgroup of tumors with alterations in specific genes, AstraZeneca says.

By 2019, lung cancer mortality rates decreased by 5.4% in males since 2015, while deaths from ovary cancer have also declined rapidly over the past 2 decades.

Completing a breast cancer-focused continuing education credit and encouraging screenings are 2 ways that pharmacists can get involved during the month of October.

Further, the survey showed that fewer than half of women would flag redness of the breast, thickening of the skin, or 1 breast feeling warmer and heavier than the other as possible symptoms.

Presenters at the AMCP Nexus conference explore outcomes data and whether these medications should be substituted for reference products more frequently.

New agents can offer a more tailored approach to therapy selection.

In a trial, sacituzumab govitecan-hziy demonstrated a 34% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with physician’s choice chemotherapy.

Higher C-reactive protein levels have been linked to cognition problems among older breast cancer survivors.

Oncology pharmacists participate significantly in conversations, research, and publications of that research.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

All of the findings indicate that inadequate margin widths result in higher risks of distant recurrence and breast cancer mortality, as well as increased total recurrence.

Given that dendritic cells are necessary for anti-tumor response, researchers investigated which pathways stop these cells from performing their full functions.

Two Houston Methodist cancer researchers were granted a quarter of a million dollars each to study some of the most lethal cancers.

Selpercatinib produced clinically meaningful and durable responses across a variety of tumor types in patients with RET-driven cancers.

Data showed that Black women, regardless of education level or income, are more likely to reside in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which may contribute to racial disparities in breast cancer.

Black women are suggested to be diagnosed with stage 3 HR-positive breast cancer and receive longer neoadjuvant endocrine therapy more often than White women.

Prior authorizations have delayed time to treatment for patients and can directly impact clinical outcomes.

Ribociclib with endocrine therapy was found to increase the median overall survival of patients with HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer with visceral metastases to nearly 5 years.