San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Jamie Carroll, APRN, CNP, MSN, offers her perspective on emerging data from the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Loyda Braithwaite, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP; and Jamie Carroll, APRN, CNP, MSN, highlight presentations from the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium that will influence oncology nursing practice.

Loyda Braithwaite, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP, reflects on data presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer derived benefit with sacituzumab govitecan regardless of Trop-2 expression.

Jamie Carroll, APRN, CNP, MSN, weighs in on how findings from the POSITIVE study may change dialogue surrounding pregnancy for women with estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer who wish to pause adjuvant therapy.

Cannabidiol oil may be useful in helping patients with breast cancer manage tamoxifen-related adverse effects.

Loperamide prophylaxis was linked to low rates of grade 3 diarrhea in patients receiving adjuvant pyrotinib, but better antidiarrheal prophylaxis options are still needed in this setting.

Non-Hispanic Black patients with hormone receptor (HR)–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer were more likely to have worse outcomes vs non-Hispanic White, Asian, and Hispanic patients, even with similar 21-gene recurrence scores.

Neoadjuvant pertuzumab/trastuzumab increased the rate of pathological complete response in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Grace Choong, MD; and Matthew Goetz, MD, discuss the effect of omitting adjuvant endocrine therapy for patients with estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer who were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Patients with breast cancer may be at risk for more intense cognitive impairment following treatment with chemotherapy plus endocrine therapy.

Camizestrant doubled progression-free survival compared with fulvestrant in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Patients with early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer who received both adjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine and concurrent radiotherapy did not experience a significant drop in ejection fraction or global longitudinal strain.

Capivasertib plus fulvestrant improved progression-free survival in patients who have hormone-receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Ribociclib showed a significant reduction in risk of disease progression in patients with pre- and perimenopausal HR+, HR- advanced breast cancer.

Longer duration of CDK4/6 inhibitor prior to treatment with elacestrant correlated with progression-free survival (PFS) improvements in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer vs standard-of-care options.

Treatment with chemotherapy, including taxane-based chemotherapies, in the adjuvant setting did not yield significant differences in breast-cancer related lymphedema risk.

In real-world practice, use of ovarian suppression therapy was not common among premenopausal patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive breast cancer, with tamoxifen being the preferred endocrine therapy.

In the second-line setting, patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer derived a superior clinical benefit with trastuzumab deruxtecan compared with treatment with physician’s choice of treatment.

Findings from the POSITIVE trial suggest that pausing endocrine therapy to pursue pregnancy did not negatively affect outcomes for patients with breast cancer.

A landmark 4-year analysis of invasive-disease free survival outcomes from the phase 3 monarchE study support the use of adjuvant abemaciclib with endocrine therapy for patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive early breast cancer.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan both significantly improved overall survival and yielded progression-free survival that was 4 times greater than trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

New findings suggest that neoadjuvant therapy with antibody-drug conjugates may be effective for patients with early-stage breast cancer.

A triplet regimen of tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine helped patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and brain metastases live longer with reduced disease progression compared with trastuzumab and capecitabine alone.

PI3K-pathway mutations may predict an increased risk of secondary uterine cancer in patients receiving tamoxifen to treat primary breast cancer.

Updates from the ongoing INSEMA trial suggest that patients with early-stage breast cancer maintain superior quality of life by forgoing sentinel lymph node biopsy and axillary lymph node dissection.

Findings from a breast cancer analysis demonstrated that pathologic complete response and event-free survival rates were not significantly affected by patient’s race.

The introduction of adjuvant approaches reduced the risk of disease recurrence in HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancer.

Treatment modifications were inconsistent among White and Black patients with breast cancer. However, the use of a multiscale biophysical modeling platform may be useful in informing treatment modification decisions.

Aromatase inhibitors were revealed to be more effective than tamoxifen in reducing the rate of recurrence in ER+ breast cancer among premenopausal women receiving ovarian suppression.