Breast Cancer

The development of more effective treatments — including personalized therapies — have dramatically improved outcomes for children and adolescents with cancer, according to American Association for Cancer Research’s Cancer Progress Report.

Mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis lead to very similar outcomes, so shared-decision making is important for breast cancer screening, according to an expert.

False-positive mammography results discouraged women to return for further screenings, results from an observational cohort study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Use of pembrolizumab with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and as monotherapy in the adjuvant setting extended OS for patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, according to results from the randomized phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 trial.

A multi-institutional team of researchers developed an AI model designed to predict which patients with breast cancer are most likely to experience chronic pain.

CHICAGO — Hormone therapy is beneficial for some women beyond age 65 years to treat ongoing menopausal symptoms that affect their quality of life, according to research reported at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, will receive this year’s ESMO Award.

In this video interview, Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, discusses the individualized sequential therapies provided to patients based on the breast cancer subtype, genomics and other factors.

In this video interview, Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, highlights the increasing incidence in breast cancer.

In this video interview, Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, highlights the integration of artificial intelligence in radiologic reads to assist technicians in detecting abnormalities during breast cancer screenings.