FDA Approves Itovebi
On October 10, 2024, the FDA approved inavolisib (ItovebiTM, Genentech, Inc.) with palbociclib (Kisqali®) and fulvestrant (Faslodex®) and a companion diagnostic...
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2024
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2023
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- What is a Biomarker and How are Biomarkers Used in Clinical Trials?
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2022
- Biomarkers to Guide MBC Treatment Decisions: dMMR/MSI-H, TMB, and NTRK Fusion
- The Latest Research on CDK 4/6 Inhibitors
- Patient-Reported Outcomes: Including the Patient Voice in MBC Research
- Clinical Trial Outcomes: What is Being Studied and How is it Measured?
- Which Foods, Supplements, and Drugs Should I Avoid During MBC Treatment?
- Why You Should Consider Repeat Biopsies
- Biomarkers to Guide MBC Treatment Decisions: PIK3CA, BRCA1/BRCA2, and PD-L1/PD-1
- Oncolytic Viruses: Using Viruses to Kill Cancer Cells
- Lobular Breast Cancer Metastasis: Highlighting the Researchers
- What is Measurable Disease?
- CURE®’s Educated Patient® Metastatic Breast Cancer Summit
- New Announcement: Introduction to MBC Clinical Trials Video
- What is it Like to Participate in a Clinical Trial?
- FDA Approves Enhertu® for HER2-Low MBC
- Why Knowing Your HER2 Status is Important
- Breast Cancer Lung Metastasis: Highlighting the Experts
- How To Find Clinical Trial Results
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- All About Vaccines for MBC
- How Trial Participation is Becoming Easier: Managing Finances, Travel, and Other Considerations
- Breast Cancer Liver Metastasis: Highlighting the Experts
- What Are Crossover Trials and How Do They Work?
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- Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis: Highlighting the Experts
- How Trial Participation Is Becoming Easier: Decentralization
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- Update On Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) For MBC
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- When We Tri(al) Our New Partner!
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- Bispecific Antibodies: An Emerging Class Of MBC Drugs
- MBC and NED
- “Standard of Care” for MBC
- Treatment for MBC While Pregnant
- MBC-Related News from SABCS
2021
- Advanced Breast Cancer Conference 2021
- Scan Anxiety
- Treatment Strategies for Triple-Positive MBC
- What do FGFR Genetic Mutations Mean for You and Your MBC?
- Understanding Informed Consent
- Cannabis Use For Managing Symptoms and Side Effects
- Metronomic Chemotherapy: Looking at A New Way to Receive Treatment
- Lobular Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Financial Toxicity: Managing Costs While Enrolled in a Clinical Trial
- What are Solid Tumor Trials and Why Are They Important?
- Prepare For SABCS 2021
- Inflammatory MBC Treatments
- Pink October/MBC Awareness Day
- Steps Toward Expanding Eligibility Criteria to Increase Diversity in Clinical Trials
- Metastatic Breast Cancer News from 2021 ESMO
- Theragnostics
- Spotlight on the Tigerlily Foundation & Breast Cancer Racial Disparities
- Health Insurance for MBC
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- Metastatic Trial Search: New Features
- Metastatic Breast Cancer News from ASCO 2021
- FDA Fast Track
- Cell-Based Therapies: A Type of Immunotherapy for MBC
- Black Breast Cancer & BRCA1/2 Mutations
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- Modernizing Clinical Trials
- Update on Oral SERDs for Estrogen Receptor-Positive MBC
- MBC News from 2021 AACR Meeting
- Videos About Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
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- Where You Can Find Current MBC Research
- Local Therapies for Liver Mets
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- St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2021
- Spotlight on New Partners
- 2021 Miami Breast Cancer Conference
- Just-in-Time Trials
- The Latest Research on Hormone Receptor-Positive (HR+) MBC
- Side Effects of Radiation Therapy for Brain Mets
- Other MBC Resources
- Metastatic Breast Cancer in the LGBTQI Communities
- Expanded Access
- 2021 Update on Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Treatment
- Screening for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases
- Participating in a Trial: Patient Voices
- FDA Approves MARGENZA
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- Spotlight on MBC Podcasts
- What is Next-Generation Sequencing?
- Lines of Therapy: New Drugs May Change MBC Treatment
- What Are Lines of Therapy and What You Need to Know
- Warmest Wishes for 2021
2020
- When to Use Surgery & Radiation to the Breast
- Metastatic Trial Search: New & Improved
- Body Image and Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Individualized Dosing for People with MBC
- FDA Approves Keytruda®
- Art Therapy for People with MBC
- HER2-Low Expressing: A New Subcategory of HER2-Negative Breast Cancer?
- How to Prepare for a Virtual SABCS
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- PD-L1 Biomarker for Immunotherapy
- Depression & Metastatic Breast Cancer
- LBBC’s Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Metastatic Breast Cancer at a Young Age
- How Participants are Divided into Treatment Groups in Clinical Trials
- Sexual Side Effects of MBC Treatment
- What is ER-Low Breast Cancer?
- Clinical Trials Are Not Only a Last Resort
- Spotlight on Metastatic Breast Cancer in Older People
- FDA Approves PHESGO
- HER2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Update
- Peer Support for Metastatic Breast Cancer
- How to Find Metastatic Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
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- Telemedicine in Clinical Trials
- Recent FDA Approvals for Metastatic Breast Cancer
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- Managing Anxiety
- The Tumor Microenvironment
- Komen LA MBC Conference
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- Exercise and Stage 4 Breast Cancer
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2019
- Warmest Wishes
- Tips for Reading Cancer News
- What Do Drug Names Mean?
- Getting Through the Holidays While Living with MBC
- Diagnosing & Treatment of Bone Metastases
- What is a Tumor Agnostic Therapy?
- True or False?
- Expanding Eligibility Criteria
- Dragon Boat Racing
- Genetic vs. Genomic Testing
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- Treating Brain Metastases
- OS vs. PFS: What You Need to Know
- How to Ask Your Doctor About Clinical Trials
- More Men Needed in Breast Cancer Trials
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- What is Oligometastatic Breast Cancer?
- Doctors & Patients on Clinical Trials
- Genomic Testing: What Makes Your Tumor Grow?
- MBC Facebook Groups
- Treatment Guidelines for Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Metastatic Breast Cancer Blogs
- Why the Phase of a Clinical Trial Matters
- Planning Ahead: Advance Care Plans
- First Immunotherapy Approved for MBC
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- What to Know About Palliative Care for MBC
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- New Research Presented at San Antonio
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- Support for MBC Caregivers
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2018
- Reporting Side Effects in Cancer Clinical Trials
- Stories of De Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Evidence-Based Information on Herbs and Supplements
- Your Tumor and Experience Could Lead to New Treatments
- Thriving at a Cancer Conference
- MBC Patients in The News
- Talking to Kids About MBC
- Biosimilar Drugs & Breast Cancer
- Immunotherapy & Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Living with Triple Negative MBC
- The Lack of Diversity in Clinical Trials
- Where to Find Financial Support
- Insights into Treatment Resistance
- Speaking Out on Inflammatory Breast Cancer
- Perspectives on Clinical Trials
- Living with MBC
- Managing Pain While Living with MBC
- Voices of Men with MBC
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- CRISPR & Cancer
- Treating BRCA1/2 Metastatic Breast Cancer
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