Overview of ESR1 Mutations in ER+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer

Interval breast cancer rates have remained consistent over 30 years despite age-based screening, highlighting the need for risk-based screening strategies that account for factors like breast density, hormone replacement therapy, and family cancer history to improve early detection.

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.

Racial and ethnic disparities were identified in immunotherapy receipt for Black patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

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.

Significant increases in breast cancer incidence were found among Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Asian or Pacific Islander women.

Breast cancer screening rates shifted after the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines, with disparities emerging across race, income, and lifestyle factors.