Verzenio (abemaciclib) in combination with standard adjuvant endocrine therapy significantly decreased the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 25% compared to standard adjuvant ET alone for people with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative high risk early breast cancer (HR: 0.747; 95% CI: 0.598, 0.932; p = 0.0096).
As NCI paylines drop to 4%, cancer centers are tapping into their institutional funds to provide “bridge funding,” typically in $50,000 to $100,000 increments, to enable investigators to keep their labs open until better times return—next year God willing.
