VIDEO: Recent developments in treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
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In this video, Kevin Kalinsky, MD, discussed recent developments in the treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer presented at 39th Miami Breast Cancer Conference.
"We reiterated the point that for patients who are newly diagnosed with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that it is critical to check for PDL1 positivity," Kalinsky, an associate professor of medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, said , noting that the only FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitor for these patients is pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck).