IMPROVING SURVIVAL FOR ADVANCED BREAST CANCER WITH MASSIMO CRISTOFANILLI, MD

Episode Summary

It is possible to improve and prolong the life of patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer, according to the results of a new phase III clinical trial. Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, principal investigator of the trial explains the results and the state of breast cancer in America today.

Breast cancer survival rates have been improving since the 1990s, but there's still a significant need for new therapies. Every year, more than 40,000 American women die from breast cancer. Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli has exciting results from a phase three clinical trial he led, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that shows improved survival rates for women with common forms of advanced breast cancer.

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This podcast was originally release via the Feinberg School of Medicine News Center in December 2018.

Massimo Cristofanilli, MD

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology
Associate Director for Translational Research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University