Dr Kathy Miller discusses studies of interest at the upcoming San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Co-Director, Breast Cancer Program, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IndianaSan Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Now, why am I so interested in this trial, you might ask. I don’t understand the results that we have from trials thus far. You’ve seen with theThe results with the atezolizumab have been a bit confusing.
Those patients were followed for 2 years, with really important endpoints: How many of them appeared to have progression of their DCIS on imaging, who then went to additional surgery or went to surgery in the observation group, and really importantly, how many of them developed invasive disease in the observation group? That’s the real reason we treat DCIS: to prevent patients from developing invasive disease that could become life-threatening.
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