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The excellent outcomes seen in patients treated with adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in the ATEMPT trial and the favorable toxicity profile associated with this agent make T-DM1 a potential therapeutic ...
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Open AccessTissue-agnostic drug approvals: how does this apply to patients with breast cancer?
Precision medicine has provided new perspectives in oncology, yielding research on the use of targeted therapies across different tumor types, regardless of their site of origin, a concept known as tissue-agno...
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Open AccessNivolumab in combination with cabozantinib for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a phase II and biomarker study
This single-arm phase II study investigated the efficacy and safety of cabozantinib combined with nivolumab in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC). The primary endpoint was objective response rate...
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Open AccessModeling clonal structure over narrow time frames via circulating tumor DNA in metastatic breast cancer
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers minimally invasive means to repeatedly interrogate tumor genomes, providing opportunities to monitor clonal dynamics induced by metastasis and therapeutic selective pressur...
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Clinical Development of New Antibody–Drug Conjugates in Breast Cancer: To Infinity and Beyond
Metastatic breast cancer remains an incurable disease, and new therapies are needed. One major limitation of chemotherapy is the toxicity associated with higher dose exposure. Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) a...
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Open AccessPhase 2 study of buparlisib (BKM120), a pan-class I PI3K inhibitor, in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
Treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer remain limited. Activation of the PI3K pathway via loss of PTEN and/or INPP4B is common. Buparlisib is an orally bioavailable, pan-class I PI3K inhibitor. We ev...