Breast Cancer | Specialty

The OncLive Breast Cancer condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights on various types of breast cancer, including those that are triple negative, hormone receptor positive, and/or HER2 positive. This page features news articles, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on treatment advances and ongoing research in breast cancer.


Adjuvant Strategies in Early-Stage HER2+ Breast Cancer

January 11th 2020

Evolving Landscape of HER2-Targeted Therapy in Breast Cancer

January 11th 2020

Dr. Rugo on Findings of Oral Paclitaxel With Encequidar in Metastatic Breast Cancer

January 8th 2020

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses results of a randomized phase III trial evaluating oral paclitaxel with encequidar in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Real-World Abemaciclib Use in MBC Is Heterogeneous

January 3rd 2020

In the first 11 months following the FDA approval of the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib as a single agent and in combination with endocrine therapy for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, it is being used heterogeneously, including in patients with characteristics indicative of worse prognosis.

Absolute Lymphocyte Count May Predict Eribulin Benefit in Breast Cancer

December 28th 2019

A high absolute lymphocyte count at baseline appears to be an independent predictor for longer overall survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer who are treated with eribulin mesylate.

FDA Accepts Sacituzumab Govitecan Application for TNBC

December 27th 2019

The FDA has accepted a biologics license application for sacituzumab govitecan as a treatment for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who have received at least 2 prior therapies for metastatic disease.

Current Advancements in HER2+ Breast Cancer Management

December 24th 2019

HER2CLIMB-02 Trial Regimen Toxicities and Impact

December 24th 2019

The HER2CLIMB-02 Trial Design, Results and Implications

December 24th 2019

HER2+ Breast Cancer: Brain Metastasis Prevalence & Later-Line Therapy

December 24th 2019

Emerging Data for the Treatment of HER2+ mBC

December 24th 2019

HER2+ mBC: Systemic Therapies and HER2CLIMB-02 Trial

December 24th 2019

Management of CNS Metastases in R/R HER2+ mBC

December 24th 2019

HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer: Standard of Care Therapies

December 24th 2019

Dr. Traina on the FDA Approval of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2+ Breast Cancer

December 21st 2019

Tiffany A. Traina, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the FDA approval of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu; DS-8201) for patients with HER2-positive, locally advanced, or metastatic breast cancer who have been treated with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) and have disease progression after ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla).

Talking Tumors: Weill Cornell Medicine Experts Walk Through Challenging Breast Cancer Cases

December 18th 2019

Lisa Newman, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCO, and Alan B. Astrow, MD, discuss the need for systemic therapy in women with microinvasive triple-negative breast cancer and more intensive adjuvant therapy in women with intermediate-risk hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Analysis Unable to Achieve Concordance Among PD-L1 Assays in TNBC

December 16th 2019

Mathematical modeling was unable to harmonize the VENTANA SP263 and Dako 22C3 PD-L1 assays with the FDA-approved VENTANA PD-L1 SP142 companion diagnostic for the selection of patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer appropriate for atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel.

Adjuvant Chemo Shows Slight Benefit in Younger Women With Breast Cancer Who Have Mixed Clinical, Genomic Risk

December 16th 2019

Patients with premenopausal breast cancer and discordant clinical and genomic risk had a small increase in distant metastasis if they did not receive adjuvant chemotherapy, according to a post hoc analysis of the MINDACT trial.

Dr. Rugo on Updated Data From the SOPHIA Trial in HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer

December 14th 2019

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses the updated data from the phase III SOPHIA trial for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had received prior anti-HER2 therapies, presented at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Neoadjuvant Olaparib Combo Safe in Breast Cancer

December 14th 2019

Adding the PARP inhibitor olaparib to neoadjuvant platinum based-chemotherapy was determined to be a safe treatment for patients with triple-negative breast cancer, as well as for patients with breast cancer whose tumors harbor germline BRCA mutations.