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Encouraging data on immunotherapy, cardiotoxicity, and DFS


 

The immunologic checkpoint inhibitors avelumab and pemrolizomab show promise in patients with metastatic breast cancer; a trastuzumab-based, nonanthracycline regimen yields cardiac safety benefits in early HER2-positive disease; and the oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor neratinib delivers consistent disease-free survival at 3 years: Bruce Jancin and Susan London report from the 2015 annual meeting of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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