Possible New Treatments for Patients With Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
Studies presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium show additional treatment options.
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Studies presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium show additional treatment options.
Compared with intravenous paclitaxel, the oral form of the chemotherapy drug has been associated with improved tumor shrinkage in metastatic breast cancer patients.
While most primary cancer diagnoses have no standard of care for brain metastasis screening, a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), found that elderly survivors of lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma face a persistent risk of brain metastasis.
Two studies in the AACR journal Clinical Cancer Research report that a liquid biopsy test would provide clinicians with a noninvasive way to routinely scan for biomarkers for response to immunotherapy and potentially reach more patients eligible for treatment with these therapeutics.
A study found that African American and Hispanic women in Chicago were exposed to higher levels of ambient toxic heavy metals compared with non-Hispanic white women and that the increased exposure correlated with an increased incidence of breast cancer.
Data from a phase II clinical trial presented at the 2019 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Boston, showed the investigational therapeutic tipifarnib yielded durable objective responses in patients with recurrent and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma harboring HRAS gene mutations.
A study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reported that quitting cigarette smoking is associated with significantly reduced risk of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the ninth most common cancer in women.
A study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), found that psychological stress was linked to increased risk of cancer-specific death in women diagnosed with cervical cancer. The researchers examined records of 4,245 patients diagnosed with cervical cancer in Sweden.
A review published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), describes four distinguishing features of cancer metastasis, the process of cancer cells spreading from the primary site to other parts of the body.
Irene Ghobrial, MD, a medical oncologist, answer questions from the Cancer Today staff on a study of precursor conditions to multiple myeloma. March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month.
AACR Fellow Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, leads a national effort targeting triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer with a novel drug combination.
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