Rowan Chlebowski discusses the latest update from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification clinical trial showing the positive impact of a healthy diet on the risk of breast cancer death in postmenopausal women. He also touches upon how the metabolic syndrome may modify this risk (5:52).
Sara Hurvitz summarises the findings of the phase III MONALEESA-7 trial investigating the addition of ribociclib to endocrine therapy in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer (3:21).
A combination of biologic and genetic markers may be useful to predict which patients will experience toxicity following radiotherapy, suggest data presented at the ESTRO 38 conference in Milan, Italy.
The phase II SABR-COMET study has indicated that stereotactic ablative radiotherapy prolongs overall and progression-free survival versus palliative treatment in patients with up to five oligometastases.
Phase I results reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, point to the potential of a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy directed against mesothelin in patients with malignant pleural disease.
Use of the cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor celecoxib during neoadjuvant taxane-based chemotherapy is associated with adverse survival outcomes in certain subgroups of patients with breast cancer, shows a post-hoc analysis of the REMAGUS02 trial.