- Impact of anti-HER2 therapies on potentially avoidable deaths from stage II and III HER2-positive breast cancer in the Brazilian public healthcare system. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Oct 01; 90:104940. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: Expanding access to adjuvant T-DM1 and perioperative pertuzumab within SUS could meaningfully reduce mortality and narrow disparities in outcomes for Brazilian women with HER2-positive early breast cancer.
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- Effect of dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with node-positive early breast cancer according to estrogen receptor levels: an exploratory analysis of the GIM2 trial. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 29; 90:104942. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: ER expression levels were prognostic, but quantitative ER expression did not identify a subgroup with a clearly differential benefit from DD chemotherapy. Given the exploratory nature of this analysis and the small size of the ER-0 and ER-low subgroups, these hypothesis-generating findings are consistent with DD chemotherapy remaining an effective adjuvant treatment option for patients with node-positive eBC across the range of ER expression.
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- Subtype-specific screen-detected and interval breast cancer rates in population screening: a BreastScreen Queensland cohort study. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 26; 90:104938. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, we report the world's first population-based estimates of both subtype-specific screen-detected and interval cancer rates respectively. These data provide a benchmark for investigating effects of new early detection strategies for breast cancer screening including those related to risk-based interventions.
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- Risk factors of immune-related adverse events in patients with early-stage breast cancer: Findings from a multi-institutional retrospective study. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 29; 90:104941. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: In patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with ICI, older age and the presence of CKD were risk factors of grade ≥3 irAE. Further studies to identify biomarkers of irAE are needed to prevent irAE and reduce the long-term complications.
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- Tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine as second- or third-line therapy after trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: A multicenter retrospective study in France. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 29; 90:104939. [Online ahead of print]B
- Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) is the current standard second-line therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC), and it has been recently approved by FDA as first line therapy in combination with pertuzumab, following the results of the DESTINY-Breast09 trial. However, optimal treatment strategies following T-DXd remain undefined and data on …
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- Analysis of outcomes of nab-paclitaxel compared to other taxanes in early breast cancer: A study revealing the critical role of calendar-time bias in real-world drug comparisons. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 25; 90:104934. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: After adjusting for calendar-time bias using categorical year adjustment, no significant differences in long-term survival were observed between nab-paclitaxel and other taxanes in patients with early breast cancer. This study highlights the critical role of calendar-time bias in long-term real-world comparative studies, and provides important methodological guidance for future similar research.
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- Performance of large language models in ambiguous treatment scenarios of early breast cancer. [Journal Article]Breast. 2026 Sep 23; 90:104932. [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: LLMs amplify prevailing evidence but show significant limitations in ambiguous scenarios. Prospective evaluation within consensus processes is needed.
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- Remnant cholesterol inflammatory index for predicting pathological complete response to neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer: A multicenter external validation study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Log-RCII was independently associated with pCR and provided incremental predictive information beyond standard clinicopathologic factors. The model showed favorable discrimination in the external validation cohort, but systematic overprediction indicates that further prospective validation and potential recalibration are warranted before clinical implementation.
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- Early termination of clinical trials enrolling patients with breast cancer: Reasons, determinants, and temporal patterns. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Early termination of breast cancer trials is a heterogeneous phenomenon, with distinct patterns based on study characteristics. Tailored strategies to improve trial feasibility, participant recruitment, and operational planning may reduce the risk of ET.
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- Transcriptomic signatures of mind-body transformations therapy in breast cancer: Downregulation of the interferon signaling pathway. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: MBT-T acts as a biological modulator capable of downregulating key inflammatory pathways at the transcriptional level. These findings provide a genomic basis for the clinical benefits of mind-body interventions in oncology.
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- Surgery-first versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage I (cT1c) triple-negative breast cancer: A critical reappraisal. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: We propose a stage-specific therapeutic algorithm for cT1c N0M0 TNBC favouring a surgery-first strategy followed by ACT. This approach optimizes survival outcomes by including adjuvant capecitabine within an anthracycline/taxane backbone while avoiding the potential pitfalls of neoadjuvant undertreatment in early-stage disease.
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- Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by pembrolizumab in participants in Asia with early triple-negative breast cancer: An updated subgroup analysis of the KEYNOTE-522 randomized clinical trial. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: OS and updated EFS outcomes in KEYNOTE-522 participants enrolled in Asia were consistent with those in the overall population and support use of perioperative pembrolizumab + neoadjuvant chemotherapy as a standard-of-care treatment in this setting.
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- Prognostic role of thymidine kinase 1 activity in hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer. A systematic review and meta-analysis. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Pre-treatment high TKa is an adverse prognostic factor in women with HR+ MBC. High on-treatment TKa is also associated with worse outcome, potentially serving as an early signal of treatment resistance. We provide a comprehensive summary of the currently available evidence on the prognostic value of circulating TKa.
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- Which quality of life issues are important to patients with metastatic breast cancer: Phase 1 and 2 development of European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer metastatic breast cancer module (EORTC QLQ-MBR). [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The provisional EORTC MBC-specific module aims to enhance understanding and measurement of QoL in clinical research and care and be the first QoL tool dedicated to MBC. The standardised tool contains relevant QoL issues and is currently undergoing qualitative and psychometric testing.
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