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How First Lady Betty Ford and surgeon Bernie Fisher revolutionized America’s attitude toward breast cancer
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Clinical associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine; Host and producer, Less Radical podcast, which covers the story of Bernie Fisher and the NSABP
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Positive topline results have come out of the randomized phase II FOURLIGHT-1 study evaluating atirmociclib in combination with fulvestrant, versus fulvestrant or everolimus plus exemestane, in people with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer who had received prior cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor-based treatment.
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