News & Updates

Updated results of the DESTINY-Breast03 trial, presented at SABCS 2022, showed that in patients with HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, second-line treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan conferred better survival benefits than treatment with trastuzumab emtansine.

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) and women themselves may overlook the signs of heavy menstrual bleeding, with most HCPs failing to recognize the key indicators for bleeding disorders and perform assessments for patients with heavy menstrual bleeding, according to a study presented at ASH 2022.

Using a 4-day, fixed-dose schedule of filgrastim as granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) primary prophylaxis reduces the incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) and associated hospitalization while maintaining the doses of adjuvant docetaxel and cyclophosphamide (TC) among Chinese women with early breast cancer (BC), a retrospective cohort study in Hong Kong has shown.

Women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may benefit from habitual consumption of caffeinated coffee to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes (T2D) and have a more favourable metabolic profile, suggests a study.

The AKT inhibitor capivasertib, when added to fulvestrant, doubled progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with aromatase inhibitor (AI)-resistant hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2*-negative (HER2–) advanced breast cancer (ABC), results of the phase III CAPItello-291 trial showed.

Young breast cancer survivors could safely temporarily stop adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) to attempt pregnancy, according to primary results of the POSITIVE* trial presented at SABCS 2022.