FDA Approvals, Pivotal Trial Data Change Approach to Breast Cancer Progression
Manage episode 407461983 series 3560609
Recent approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and findings from pivotal clinical trials have changed care for patients with breast cancer that has progressed after frontline hormone therapy. Ruth M. O’Regan, MD, chair of medicine and Charles H. Dewey Professor at the University of Rochester in New York, highlights which recent developments regarding second- and third-line treatments are most essential. She and Robert A. Figlin, MD, the Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center in Los Angeles, discuss which newly approved drugs are making a difference in patients with actionable mutations, as well as those without. Dr. O’Regan also details which soon-to-be reported studies she is awaiting in 2024.
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