Benjamin Walbaum: Weekly Breast Cancer Insights With Clinical Consequences
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Benjamin Walbaum: Weekly Breast Cancer Insights With Clinical Consequences

Benjamin Walbaum, Medical Oncologist at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“My Weekly Take, Breast Cancer (Feb 9–16).

Precision Treatment With Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Subtyping Enhances Therapeutic Efficacy in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer: The LINUX Trial.

Cancer Cell

  • AI-driven molecular subtyping improves treatment allocation and enhances therapeutic efficacy in HR+/HER2− disease.

Proactive Brain Screening Using Contrast-Enhanced Brain CT Scans in HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Clinical Cancer Research

  • Early CNS screening may improve outcomes in HER2+ metastatic disease and deserves prospective validation.

Validation of the HER2DX Genomic Test in First-Line Advanced HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
npj Breast Cancer.

  • HER2DX refines prognostication beyond clinical factors in first-line metastatic HER2+ disease.

Circulating Tumor DNA in Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Early Breast Cancer.

ESMO Open

  • ctDNA dynamics may guide adaptive endocrine strategies in early HR+ breast cancer.

Inadequate Ovarian Function Suppression in Premenopausal Early Breast Cancer.

ESMO Open

  • Suboptimal ovarian suppression remains common and may compromise adjuvant endocrine efficacy.

Extracellular Matrix Mediates Circulating Tumor Cell Clustering in TNBC Metastasis.

Nature Communications

  • ECM-driven CTC clustering is a key biological driver of TNBC metastasis and a potential therapeutic target.

Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer Incidence and Prognosis.

The Breast

  • Alcohol increases breast cancer incidence in a dose-dependent manner but does not worsen breast cancer–specific survival.

Prognostic Significance of Isolated Tumor Cells in Nodal Evaluation.

JCO Precision Oncology

  • Isolated tumor cells carry independent prognostic significance and may impact adjuvant decision-making.

Full newsletter attached. Happy to discuss how these data may influence clinical practice.”

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