Breast Cancer Breakthroughs: SABCS 2025 Highlights
Experts in Dana-Farber’s Breast Oncology Center discuss highlights in breast cancer research innovation presented at SABCS 2025 in San Antonio, Texas providing state-of-the-art information on experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease.
Paolo Tarantino, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presented new findings from the DATO-Base study examining treatment with the ADC Dato-DXd for women with leptomeningeal disease. Breast cancer is the most common cancer linked to this ...
Erica Mayer, MD discusses results from TBCRC 56 study
Erica Mayer, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shared results from TBCRC 56, showing presurgical treatment with a PARP inhibitor + anti-PD1 combo in patients with gBRCAm early triple-negative breast cancer resulted in a pCR rate of 50%. ...
Medical Oncology
Ann Partridge, MD discusses YES study
Breast cancer survivors who used a novel mobile health intervention to self-manage post-treatment symptoms were able to improve their quality of life and reduce the burden of common symptoms, according to results of the YES study presented ...
Medical Oncology
Rachel Freedman, MD discusses phase 2 ATOP study
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Rachel Freedman, MD, presents results from the phase 2 ATOP study showing older patients with HER2+ breast cancer receiving adjuvant T-DM1 had a favorable 5-year survival with manageable toxicity. ATOP is ...
Medical Oncology
Ultrasensitive detection of minimal residual disease using ctDNA can help predict the duration of response to HER2 targeted therapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer, according to a study presented by Stefani Morganti, MD, of Dana-Farber ...