THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Joyce O’Shaughnessy, M.D., medical director and co-chair of the Breast Cancer Research Committee, US Oncology Research, and medical oncologist with Texas Oncology-Baylor Sammons Cancer Center, presented her study findings today at the 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), an international scientific symposium for interaction and exchange among basic scientists and clinicians in breast cancer.
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Her captivating study titled “First Efficacy Results of a Randomized, Open-Label, Phase III Study of Adjuvant Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide Followed by Docetaxel with or without Capecitabine in High-Risk Early Breast Cancer” involved an innovative ten-year analysis focusing on high-risk early breast cancer. Her presentation provided an in-depth look at how faster growing breast cancers react to Xeloda® (capecitabine).
“Although the overall study results at the time of this analysis do not show that breast cancer recurrences are significantly decreased with the addition of Xeloda to standard chemotherapy, I think the study suggests that Xeloda may reduce recurrence of faster growing breast cancers,” said Dr. O’Shaughnessy. “Hopefully longer follow-up will confirm these findings.”
Dr. O’Shaughnessy is one of several internationally recognized investigators affiliated with US Oncology Research who participated in studies that are being presented, discussed and displayed Dec. 8-12 to a broad international audience of academic and private researchers and physicians from more than 90 countries. She and six other leading investigators participated in the following studies that have been or will be displayed as posters and poster discussions at the conference:
Poster Discussions: | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
A Genomic Predictor of Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer | |||
Symmans WF, Hatzis C, Valero V, Booser DJ, Esserman L, Martin M, Vidaurre T, Holmes F, Souchon EA, Lluch A, Cotrina J, Gomez H, Hubbard R, Ferrer-Lozano J, Dyer R, Buxton M, Gong Y, Wu Y, Ibrahim N, Andreopoulou E, Ueno NT, Hunt K, Yang W, Nazario A, DeMichele A, O’Shaughnessy J, Hortobagyi GN, Pusztai L.1 | |||
o | 5:30 pm CST, Thursday, Dec. 9 | ||
Review of Capecitabine for the Treatment of Triple-Negative Early Breast Cancer | |||
Steger GG, Barrios C, O’Shaughnessy J, Martin M, Gnant M. | |||
Posters: | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
A Pilot Safety and Feasibility Study of Concurrent Capecitabine and External Beam Irradiation in the Adjuvant Treatment of High Risk Early Stage Breast Cancer | |||
Garwood DP, Spangler A, DeRose PM, Li HC, Osborne C, O’Shaughnessy J, Tripathy D. | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Sunday, Dec. 12 | ||
Impact of the Number of Prior Chemotherapy Regimens on Overall Survival (OS) among Subjects with Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated with Eribulin Mesylate: Results from the Phase III EMBRACE Study. | |||
Blum JL, Twelves CJ, Akerele C, Seegobin S, Wanders J, Cortes J. | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Sunday, Dec. 12 | ||
Meta-analysis of patients with triple-negative disease from three randomized trials of bevacizumab (BV) and first-line chemotherapy as treatment for metastatic breast cancer (MBC). | |||
J O’Shaughnessy, G Romieu, V Dieras, M Byrtek, A-A Duenne, D Miles. | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Sunday, Dec. 12 | ||
Survival Outcomes With Eribulin vs. Treatment of the Physician’s Choice (TPC) in Heavily Pretreated Patients with Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer in North America, Western Europe, and Australia: Results of the Phase III EMBRACE Study | |||
C. Twelves1, D. Loesch2, J. Blum3, L. Vahdat4, K. Petrakova5, X. Durando6, S. Seegobin7, C. Dutcus8 | |||
o | 5:30 pm CST, Friday, Dec. 10 | ||
Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Amplification and Overexpression in Breast Cancer Tissue Microarrays Using Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry | |||
Nuciforo P, Burzykowski T, Lambertini C, Gardner H, Liu WH, Lee B, Barzaghi-Rinaudo P, Rheinhardt J, Barrett C, Linnartz R, Dugan M, Hackl W, Eiermann W, Pienkowski T, Crown J, Robert N, Pawlicki M, Martin M, Finn R, Lindsay M-A, Slamon D, Press M. | |||
o | 5:30 pm CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
Ongoing Evaluation of Capecitabine-Based Therapy in Early Breast Cancer (EBC) | |||
Poole C, Barrios C, O’Shaughnessy J, Martin M, Mobus V. | |||
Stephen Jones, M.D., medical director for US Oncology Research, co-chair of the US Oncology Breast Cancer Research Committee, and physician at Texas Oncology-Dallas, participated in the TEAM (Tamoxifen Exemestane Adjuvant Multinational) study that included more than 10,000 patients over a five-year period. Study results will be presented on Saturday, Dec. 11 as the following poster discussion and two poster displays:
Poster Discussion: | |||
o | 7:00 am CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
Competing Causes of Mortality vs. Breast Cancer Mortality at 5-years among 9766 postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive early breast cancer treated on the TEAM study of adjuvant hormonal therapy. | |||
Stephen E. Jones, Hein Putter, Annette Hasenburg, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Daniel Rea, Jean-Michel Vannetzel, Robert Paridaens, Christos Markopoulos, Yasuo Hozumi, Caroline Seynaeve. | |||
Posters: | |||
o | 5:30 pm CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
Discontinuation during tamoxifen in the sequential arm of the TEAM trial of adjuvant endocrine therapy in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer: the effect of IES results and subsequent therapy. | |||
Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, Elysee T. M. Hille, Daniel Rea, Caroline Seynaeve, Annette Hasenburg, Jean-Michel Vannetzel, Robert Paridaens, Christos Markopoulos, Yasuo Hozumi, Dirk G. Kieback, Lina Asmar, Jan Smeets, Johan W. R. Nortier, Peyman Hadji, John M. S. Bartlett, Hein Putter, Stephen E. Jones. | |||
o | 5:30 pm CST, Saturday, Dec. 11 | ||
Effects of exemestane or tamoxifen on bone health within the Tamoxifen Exemestane Adjuvant Multicentre (TEAM) trial: a meta-analysis | |||
P. Hadji, L. Asmar, J.G.H. van Nes, T. Menschik, A. Hasenburg, J. Kuck, H. Nortier, S.E. Jones, M. Ziller | |||
Many clinical studies led by US Oncology Research Network physicians were also predominantly featured at numerous conferences held around the world, including the annual congress for the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the annual meeting for the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Those studies, along with more than 30 published manuscripts, featured forward looking clinical research topics that are helping advance cancer care today and discover improved therapies for the cancer care of tomorrow. For a complete list, please contact US Oncology at 281-863-1000.
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