SAN ANTONIO – Dr. William A. Gradishar and Dr. Hope S. Rugo reflect on some familiar questions at the conclusion of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: Should young, high-risk women receive ovarian suppression? What is the optimal duration for trastuzumab therapy? What about extended aromatase inhibitor therapy? But new questions were considered as well, based on results presented at the 40th annual symposium.
Will combining a checkpoint inhibitor with trastuzumab help overcome trastuzumab resistance?
Are CDK 4/6 inhibitors here to stay?
Does acupuncture relieve joint pain in women on adjuvant aromatase inhibitor treatment?
The potential approval of a few novel agents in 2018 – an antibody-drug conjugate and a new PARP inhibitor – were also discussed in the video roundtable.
Dr. William A. Gradishar is the Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology at Northwestern University, Chicago. He had no disclosures to report. Dr. Hope S. Rugo is professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She disclosed that she receives research funding (institutional) from Plexxikon, Macrogenics, OBI Pharma, Eisai, Pfizer, Novartis, Lilly, Genentech, and Merck.