Breast Cancer News

MADRID — Datopotamab deruxtecan extended PFS compared with chemotherapy for patients with previously treated inoperable or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, according to study results presented at ESMO Congress.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to entrectinib for infants aged 1 month and older who have solid tumors that harbor neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase, or NTRK, gene fusion for whom there are no effective treatments.

Obesity was linked to an increased breast cancer recurrence risk among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer who were treated with aromatase inhibitors, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Women who received anthracycline chemotherapy following a childhood cancer diagnosis are at an increased risk for subsequent breast cancer later in life, according to data published in Nature Medicine.

The National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members.

ORLANDO — Multicancer detection tests have the potential to boost screening rates and reduce mortality, but questions remain about whether they would create additional barriers of their own, according to speakers at OMED.

Female adolescent and young adult cancer survivors reported higher rates of perceived infertility risk and frequently overestimated or underestimated their risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Early contralateral breast cancer development after primary breast cancer for women with certain subgroups of breast cancer was associated with survival in Korean women, researchers reported.

County-level age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates were higher among women with less access to mammogram screening and also among women with obesity, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Information AI-powered chatbots provided related to search queries on the most common cancer types generally produced accurate information with poor actionability, study results published in JAMA Oncology showed.