Browsing: Breast

Women with advanced hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer who progress on endocrine therapy, CDK4/6 inhibition, and chemo often exhibit…

Top Line: EORTC 22922/10925 found that the addition of regional nodal irradiation for node positive or central/medial breast cancer reduces…

Breast cancer is notoriously difficult to reliably demarcate on preoperative imaging. And even with real-time intraop frozen section evaluation, the…

In this retrospective study of 375 left side breast cancer patients receiving radiation, increasing left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery…

How often do patients receiving breast radiation report symptoms that are unreported by their doctor? This study analyzed data from…

Top Line: Women with historically categorized intermediate risk Oncotype recurrence score (ORS=11-25) are currently risk-stratified based on age per TAILORx.…

With recent reporting of improved event-free survival in KEYNOTE 522, ASCO is now officially recommending neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab for…

Here is a fascinating narrative account of how gradual hypofractionation studies have now solidly arrived at 5 fractions as the…

Top Line: Whether to include or omit the internal mammary lymph nodes is a question that seems to frequently elude…

Radiation always seems to catch way more than its share of blame for adverse long-term outcomes from breast cancer treatment.…