Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. In this post, I will discuss our most recent understanding of this aggressive disease.

almost all women with IBC have lymph node involvement at the time of diagnosis.

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Prognostic Signatures in Breast Cancer

Prognostic signatures are also known as Gene Expression Profiles (GEP) are now commonly used in the clinic to stratify hormone positive breast cancer patients risk of distant recurrence at 10 years and aid treatment strategy decision making. In this blog post, I will review the commonly used GEP and hopefully illustrate their proper clinical utilization as well as limitations. In a previous post, I discussed the adjuvant endocrine therapy for hormone positive breast cancer, for details please click here.

The use of GEP in Early stage breast cancer signficantly reduced the use of Chemotherapy in this patient population.

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Adjuvant Capecitabine the CREAT-X trial

CREAT-X, Capcetabine for Residual Cancer as Adjuvant Therapy trial is the first of it’s kind to look into further adjuvant chemotherapy in patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Capecitabine adjuvant therapy is beneficial in Her2-negative Breast cancer with residual disease following Neoadjuvant therapy.

 

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Extended Therapy with Neratinib for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer

Neratinib is now approved for use in HER2 positive patients who completed their Trastuzumab-based therapy. This came following the publication of a phase 3 trial with the result indicating the benefit of Neratinib as compared to placebo. In the following blog post I will discuss the result of the ExteNET trial.

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