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In an update of the phase 1/2 ACE-CL-001 study, patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma treated with acalabrutinib monotherapy demonstrated high response rates (overall response, 85%; 18-month duration of response, 85%; 18-month progression-free survival, 88%), with an acceptable safety profile. Read More ›

The combination of abemaciclib plus anastrozole is superior to anastrozole alone in reducing Ki67 across a spectrum of subgroups of patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Read More ›

Radius Health, Inc. (Nasdaq:RDUS) today provided an update on data from the Phase 1 005 clinical study of elacestrant (RAD1901), an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), in patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer. The data were presented at a Spotlight Presentation (Abstract 1410) during the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Elacestrant recently received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More ›

The combination of abemaciclib plus pembrolizumab is safe and effective in women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Read More ›

In a retrospective cohort study of more than 17,000 patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, changes in the treatment paradigm have more young patients receiving ovarian suppression as part of initial therapy, and patients regardless of age receiving treatment with the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib, whereas a decrease has been seen in use of tamoxifen for younger patients and overall. Read More ›

MonarchE is an ongoing, open-label phase 3 study designed to evaluate invasive disease-free survival in patients with hormone receptor‒positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer receiving abemaciclib plus standard-of-care adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET). Read More ›

The combination of the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab plus either doxorubicin or an aromatase inhibitor may be a feasible approach to treating triple-negative or hormone receptor (HR)-positive metastatic breast cancer. Read More ›

Abemaciclib demonstrated efficacy and an acceptable safety profile in treating brain metastases in hormone receptor (HR)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer, but was not effective for brain metastases in HR-positive/HER2-positive breast cancer. Read More ›

The combination of the selective histone deacetylase inhibitor entinostat plus a CDK4/6 inhibitor demonstrates greater synergistic antitumor activity against estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer and triple-negative (TN) breast cancer than either agent alone. Read More ›

In a subanalysis of the MONARCH 2 and 3 studies, patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer with poor prognostic factors received greater benefit from the addition of abemaciclib to endocrine therapy than those without a poor prognosis. Read More ›