Breast Cancer

Breast cancer regimens can cause long-term cardiac toxicity in survivors. One trial is delving into why this is the case.

Here are the top 5 Oncology Nursing News stories for May 2019.

The results of genetic testing could have major implications for patients with breast cancer and their families.

Administering chemotherapy to a pregnant woman can be risky, but current guidelines about pregnancy testing are shaky.

The FDA has approved the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib (Piqray) for the treatment of postmenopausal women, and men, with HR-positive, HER2-negative, PIK3CA-mutated, advanced or metastatic breast cancer following progression on or after an endocrine-based regimen.

Certain populations are less likely to receive treatment for breast cancer. Nurses should lead a multidisciplinary team to improve that.

This was the first large, randomized clinical trial to show that diet can reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration granted leronlimab a fast track designation for the treatment of patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The FDA approved ado-trastuzumab emtansine for the treatment of HER2-positive early breast cancer, after it showed a 50% decrease of disease or death compared with trastuzumab.

After the widespread use of targeted therapies for breast cancer treatment, there was a wider gap in mortality rates between black and white women with the disease.

Although Minority Health Awareness Month is drawing to an end, the fight for equity in healthcare isn’t over.

Diabetes may be a risk factor for increased symptoms among breast cancer survivors, highlighting the need for interventions to control the disease, according to secondary analysis results presented at the ONS 44th Annual Congress.

Interventions must be devised to help women compensate for losses in concentration and psychomotor speed, researchers say.

An at-home computerized program could be beneficial in treating cognitive impairment in cancer survivors.

Clinical hypnosis offers a non-pharmacological approach to managing chronic pain after cancer treatment.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approved use of palbociclib (Ibrance) capsules plus endocrine therapy to treat male patients with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer, according to an announcement by the agency.

The Food and Drug Administration decided to keep the device on the market, but wants to know more about the illnesses they may potentially be linked to.

The FDA announced today that it is working to update mammography regulations, expanding the amount of information that mammography facilities must give patients and healthcare professionals. In turn, this would result in more informed decision-making – especially when it comes to breast cancer diagnoses.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis allows women of childbearing age to select embryos that do not have genetic mutations.

Oncology nurses are crucial in the management of cancer symptoms and treatment-related adverse events.

Many patients with cancer are prescribed opioids to manage post-surgical pain, putting oncology professionals in a prime position to affect the current epidemic.

An expert discusses the role oncology nurses play in managing the adverse events of patients with breast cancer.

Listen to the first-ever episode of the CURE Talks Cancer Podcast: Nursing Edition.

Not many people knew about male breast cancer when Sam Rivera was diagnosed, but he took the information from his nurses to spread awareness about the disease.

It’s an exciting time in the world of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), with treatments becoming more personalized to individual cancer subtypes, explained Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD.

Clinical trials can be very beneficial to patients and their families. However, barriers still exist in enrolling patients.

The FDA has granted an approval to PF-05280014 (Trazimera; trastuzumab-qyyp), a trastuzumab (Herceptin) biosimilar, to treat patients with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer as well as HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

The FDA approved the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP142) Assay as the first companion diagnostic to aid in identifying patients with triple-negative breast cancer who are eligible for treatment with Tecentriq (atezolizumab) plus chemotherapy.

The Food and Drug Administration has granted an accelerated approval to the frontline combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) plus nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) for patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)