The phase III PATINA trial demonstrated that the addition of Ibrance (palbociclib) to current standard-of-care first-line maintenance therapy (following induction chemotherapy) resulted in statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival by investigator assessment in patients with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Reduced screening rates and a higher prevalence of triple-negative breast cancer are driving elevated rates of advanced breast cancer in a geographic hotspot in Wilmington, Delaware, according to findings by researchers at ChristianaCare’s Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.
