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Actor Hamsa Nandini Provides an Update One Year After Breast Cancer Treatment

Feb 2023: Hamsa Nandini, who was diagnosed with Grade III Invasive Carcinoma (Breast Cancer) in 2021, has updated her Instagram followers on her health status. The actress, who has appeared in Telugu...

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy is approved by FDA for HR-positive breast cancer

Feb 2023: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved sacituzumab govitecan-hziy (Trodelvy, Gilead Sciences, Inc.) for people with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative (IHC 0, IHC 1+...

Elacestrant is approved by FDA for ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer

In February 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved elacestrant (Orserdu, Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.) for women or men over 50 who have advanced or metastatic breast cancer and are ER-...

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki is approved by FDA for breast cancer

April 2022: Adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have received a prior anti-HER2-based regimen either in the metastatic setting, or in the neoadjuvant or adj...

Olaparib is approved for adjuvant treatment of high-risk early breast cancer

March 2022: The Food and Drug Administration has approved olaparib (Lynparza, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP) for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious ge...

Abemaciclib is approved by FDA with endocrine therapy for early breast cancer

October 2021: The Food and Drug Administration has approved abemaciclib (Verzenio, Eli Lilly and Company) in combination with endocrine therapy (tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor) for adjuvant treat...

Pembrolizumab has been approved by the FDA for high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer

August 2021: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) was approved by the FDA for high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) as a neoadjuvant treatment in combination with chemotherapy, and la...

Sacituzumab govitecan receives FDA approval for triple-negative breast cancer

August 2021: Sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy, Immunomedics Inc.) gained regular FDA clearance for patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) who ha...

Pembrolizumab approved for use in any cancer with a high tumor mutational burden

July 2021: The US Food and Medication Administration (FDA) has expanded the indications for pembrolizumab (Keytruda), an immunotherapy drug, to encompass any cancer with a high mutational burden (TMB-...

The safety and effectiveness of olaparib combined with carboplatin in the treatment of triple-negative breast and ovarian cancer

Victoria L. Chiou, an oncologist at the National Cancer Institute ’s Women ’s Malignancies Department, reported a phase I trial at AACR2015. The results showed that olaparib combined with carbopla...

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