Breast Cancer Virtual Journal Club

Novel Approaches to the Management
of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Highlights from the 2009 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Expert perspectives with Javier Cortes, MD, interviewed by Sunil Verma, MD, MSEd, FRCPC.

 

This independent medical education activity features an expert interview with Javier Cortes, MD, that focuses on important data from the following abstracts presented in San Antonio:

Abstract #6099: Preliminary results of a phase II randomized trial of weekly or every 3-week ixabepilone in metastatic breast cancer (MBC)
Smith II JW, Vukelja SJ, Rabe AC, Pluenneke RE, Wentworth-Hartung N, Benaderet LB, Koutrelakos NW, Robbins GJ, Shao SH, Whittaker TL, Greco AO, Wang Y, Boehm KA, Asmar L, Opatt D, O'Shaughnessy J



Abstract #41: Final Overall Survival (OS) Results from the Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III AVADO Study of Bevacizumab (BV) Plus Docetaxel (D) Compared with Placebo (PL) Plus D for the First-Line Treatment of Locally Recurrent (LR) or Metastatic Breast Cancer (mBC)
Miles DW, Chan A, Romieu G, Dirix LY, Cortés J, Pivot X, Tomczak P, Juozaityte E, Harbeck N, Steger GG, The BO17708 Study Group



Abstract #42: RIBBON-2: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled,  Phase III Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Bevacizumab in Combination with Chemotherapy for Second-Line Treatment of HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer
Brufsky A, Bondarenko IN, Smirnov V, Hurvitz S, Perez E, Ponomarova O, Vynnychenko I, Swamy R, Mu H, Rivera R



Abstract #44:   A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2b Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Sorafenib in Combination with Paclitaxel as a First-Line Therapy in Patients with Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer   
Gradishar WJ, Kaklamani V, Sahoo TP, Lokanatha D, Raina V, Bondarde S, Jain M, Schwartzberg L



Abstract #45:  SOLTI-0701: A Multinational Double-Blind, Randomized Phase 2b Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Sorafenib Compared to Placebo When Administered in Combination with Capecitabine in Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer (BC)
Baselga J, Grupo Españ ol de Estudio Tratamiento y Otras Estrategias Experimentales en Tumores Só lidos, Roché H, Costa F, Getú lio Martins Segalla J, Pinczowski H, Ma Ciruelos E, Cabral Filho S, Gó mez P, Van Eyll B



Abstract #46:  Phase III Randomized Trial of Sunitinib (SU) Vs. Capecitabine (C) in Patients (pts) with Previously Treated HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC)
Barrios C, Liu M-C, Lee SC, Vanlemmens L, Ferrero J-M, Tabei T, Pivot X, Iwata H, Aogi K, Brickman M, Zhang K, Kern K, Martin M



Abstract #3122:  Final Results of a Randomized Phase II Study Demonstrating Efficacy and Safety of BSI-201, a Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Inhibitor, in Combination with Gemcitabine/Carboplatin (G/C) in Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
O'Shaughnessy J, Osborne C, Pippen J, Patt D, Rocha C, Ossovskaya V, Sherman B, Bradley C




Audience

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Support


This activity is supported by a grant from
Bristol-Myers Squibb.






Featured Experts

 
  Speaker

Javier Cortes, MD
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
     
    Interviewer

Sunil Verma, MD, MSEd, FRCPC
Toronto-Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 




Activity Date

This Webcast is available from January 2010 to January 2011.