PACE trial: What Menarini’s biomarker data reveals about escalating treatment in metastatic breast cancer

PACE trial: What Menarini’s biomarker data reveals about escalating treatment in metastatic breast cancer

Menarini Silicon Biosystems has reported new secondary analysis results from the PACE trial, reinforcing the potential of its CELLSEARCH Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) enumeration system as a predictive biomarker for guiding treatment escalation in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Published in Clinical Cancer Research, the findings suggest that CTC counts in blood samples could […]

Is Kazia’s paxalisib becoming the new backbone for checkpoint combos?

Is Kazia’s paxalisib becoming the new backbone for checkpoint combos?

Kazia Therapeutics Limited has presented new clinical and translational data at the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium demonstrating that paxalisib, its investigational brain-penetrant PI3K/mTOR inhibitor, may suppress circulating tumor cell clusters and reverse immune exhaustion in two of the most treatment-resistant breast cancer subtypes—HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and triple-negative breast cancer. The early evidence, […]

Can next-gen immunotherapy combos finally crack the code in metastatic breast cancer?

Can next-gen immunotherapy combos finally crack the code in metastatic breast cancer?

The landscape of metastatic breast cancer treatment is facing a fundamental rethink, with the oncology field laser-focused on one of its greatest clinical challenges: how to break immune resistance and stop metastatic spread. Despite a wave of checkpoint inhibitor approvals and initial enthusiasm, progress in metastatic breast cancer—especially for subtypes like triple-negative and HER2-positive disease—has […]

Marengo’s Invikafusp alfa shows early promise in metastatic breast cancer with dual-immunotherapy and ADC combination

Marengo’s Invikafusp alfa shows early promise in metastatic breast cancer with dual-immunotherapy and ADC combination

Marengo Therapeutics has presented early-stage results from its STARt-002 clinical trial evaluating invikafusp alfa (Invika), a novel T cell immunotherapy candidate, in combination with sacituzumab govitecan (TRODELVY), an antibody-drug conjugate developed by Gilead Sciences. The data, shared during a late-breaking presentation at the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, highlight the safety, pharmacodynamic activity, and […]

Can Eli Lilly’s Inluriyo outpace rivals in ESR1-mutated breast cancer after EMBER-3?

Can Eli Lilly’s Inluriyo outpace rivals in ESR1-mutated breast cancer after EMBER-3?

Eli Lilly and Company has released updated Phase 3 EMBER-3 results for Inluriyo, also known as imlunestrant, its oral estrogen receptor antagonist, in patients with estrogen receptor-positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer. These new data, presented at the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and published in Annals […]