Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer

CHICAGO – William J. Gradishar, MD, outlines key research on breast cancer treatment presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

In a video interview, Dr. Gradishar, the Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology at Northwestern University, Chicago, discusses the take-home messages on pertuzumab for HER2+ breast cancer, PARP inhibitors for BRCA-mutated breast cancer, and CDK4/6 inhibitors for ER+ breast cancers.

In another video interview, Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network provides the patient advocate view on this years’ meeting.

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CHICAGO – William J. Gradishar, MD, outlines key research on breast cancer treatment presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

In a video interview, Dr. Gradishar, the Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology at Northwestern University, Chicago, discusses the take-home messages on pertuzumab for HER2+ breast cancer, PARP inhibitors for BRCA-mutated breast cancer, and CDK4/6 inhibitors for ER+ breast cancers.

In another video interview, Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network provides the patient advocate view on this years’ meeting.

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On Twitter @NikolaidesLaura

CHICAGO – William J. Gradishar, MD, outlines key research on breast cancer treatment presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

In a video interview, Dr. Gradishar, the Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology at Northwestern University, Chicago, discusses the take-home messages on pertuzumab for HER2+ breast cancer, PARP inhibitors for BRCA-mutated breast cancer, and CDK4/6 inhibitors for ER+ breast cancers.

In another video interview, Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network provides the patient advocate view on this years’ meeting.

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On Twitter @NikolaidesLaura

CHICAGO – After Shirley A. Mertz, JD, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, she was surprised to learn the government wasn’t counting people like her in data gathered on the disease. Only a minority of women with the disease – those diagnosed de novo – are included in Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data, she said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

A recently published report by a National Cancer Institute mathematician and her associates estimates that about 155,000 women are living with metastatic breast cancer and that three-quarters of those women were initially diagnosed with lower-stage disease that progressed to stage IV. Ms. Mertz, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, says the estimate is a good start, but it’s important to go further and include those diagnosed with a metastatic recurrence in SEER data to get an accurate view.

“If we are not counted, then it appears we don’t matter, and how can we know if we are doing better if we don’t know how many of us are out there,” she said.

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CHICAGO – After Shirley A. Mertz, JD, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, she was surprised to learn the government wasn’t counting people like her in data gathered on the disease. Only a minority of women with the disease – those diagnosed de novo – are included in Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data, she said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

A recently published report by a National Cancer Institute mathematician and her associates estimates that about 155,000 women are living with metastatic breast cancer and that three-quarters of those women were initially diagnosed with lower-stage disease that progressed to stage IV. Ms. Mertz, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, says the estimate is a good start, but it’s important to go further and include those diagnosed with a metastatic recurrence in SEER data to get an accurate view.

“If we are not counted, then it appears we don’t matter, and how can we know if we are doing better if we don’t know how many of us are out there,” she said.

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On Twitter @NikolaidesLaura

CHICAGO – After Shirley A. Mertz, JD, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, she was surprised to learn the government wasn’t counting people like her in data gathered on the disease. Only a minority of women with the disease – those diagnosed de novo – are included in Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data, she said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

A recently published report by a National Cancer Institute mathematician and her associates estimates that about 155,000 women are living with metastatic breast cancer and that three-quarters of those women were initially diagnosed with lower-stage disease that progressed to stage IV. Ms. Mertz, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, says the estimate is a good start, but it’s important to go further and include those diagnosed with a metastatic recurrence in SEER data to get an accurate view.

“If we are not counted, then it appears we don’t matter, and how can we know if we are doing better if we don’t know how many of us are out there,” she said.

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On Twitter @NikolaidesLaura

CHICAGO – Metastatic Trial Search was launched in 2015 by ClinicalTrials.org to make it easier for patients with metastatic breast cancer to consider clinical trials as a routine option as they are making treatment decisions with their physicians.

In a video interview, Shirley A. Mertz, JD, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, describes the tool, the mixed response from physicians, the barriers to trial participation still faced by patients, and the tweaked version 2.0 of the search tool, expected to launch by the end of this year.

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On Twitter @nikolaideslaura

CHICAGO – Metastatic Trial Search was launched in 2015 by ClinicalTrials.org to make it easier for patients with metastatic breast cancer to consider clinical trials as a routine option as they are making treatment decisions with their physicians.

In a video interview, Shirley A. Mertz, JD, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, describes the tool, the mixed response from physicians, the barriers to trial participation still faced by patients, and the tweaked version 2.0 of the search tool, expected to launch by the end of this year.

[email protected]

On Twitter @nikolaideslaura

CHICAGO – Metastatic Trial Search was launched in 2015 by ClinicalTrials.org to make it easier for patients with metastatic breast cancer to consider clinical trials as a routine option as they are making treatment decisions with their physicians.

In a video interview, Shirley A. Mertz, JD, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, describes the tool, the mixed response from physicians, the barriers to trial participation still faced by patients, and the tweaked version 2.0 of the search tool, expected to launch by the end of this year.

[email protected]

On Twitter @nikolaideslaura