Some postmenopausal women with common breast cancer may forgo chemotherapy

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Postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer that has spread to a limited number of lymph nodes, and whose recurrence risk is relatively low, do not benefit from chemotherapy when it is added to hormone therapy, according to initial results from a clinical trial presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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