Breast Cancer

When Danielle Mitchell told an acquaintance about her mission to better represent Black women in the clinical workforce, the woman responded with a personal story.

Datopotamab deruxtecan failed to extend OS vs. chemotherapy for adults with advanced breast cancer, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

SGLT2 inhibition may prevent cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction and improve other outcomes in patients with diabetes undergoing cancer therapy, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — The presence of breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms may signal increased risk for atherosclerotic CVD later in life, according to research presented at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

Greater utilization of genetic testing among men could have considerable benefits with regard to detection, risk management and personalized treatment of cancers, according to authors of a review published in JAMA Oncology.

Manuka honey may represent an alternative natural approach to reducing tumor growth in breast cancer, according to research conducted at UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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.