Primary Differences in the Toxicity Profiles of Abemaciclib and Ribociclib

Older non-Hispanic Black adults with early-stage breast cancer are less likely to receive timely treatment and guideline-concordant care, increasing their risk of death compared with non-Hispanic White women.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Emily Goldberg, MS, CGC, a genetic counselor at JScreen, breaks down how genetic screening for breast cancer works and why it is so important to increase awareness and education around these screening tools available to patients who may be at risk for cancer.

Patients with endocrine-resistant, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer can use the treatment after recurrence or completing adjuvant endocrine therapy.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we discuss how already wide health care inequities in cancer are becoming much worse because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with guest Monica Soni, MD, associate chief medical officer at New Century Health.

In this interview from our Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event in Boston, we speak with Michael Hassett, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on the clinical significance and cost implications of HER2 in the breast cancer space.

Hereditary breast cancers are caused by germline mutations, which are genetic mutations inherited at conception and so called because they originate in germ cells, those that develop into reproductive cells and become eggs in female individuals and sperm in male individuals.