SABCS 2019

by Karuna Jaggar, Executive Director

Every year we go to the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), the largest breast cancer conference in the world, so we can bring you  updates and analysis of the latest breast cancer research and treatment.

It’s impossible to cover everything that goes on at SABCS, of course, but here are some of the highlights: 

• Good News and Unicorns on Day 1 of SABCS
• T-DM1 Tradeoffs: Not Worth the Costs and Side Effects in Early Stage Breast Cancer
• Evaluating—and Understanding—Breast Cancer Studies at SABCS
• No Winners in Debate Over Treatment Options
• Why Finding More Cancer With MRI Isn’t Necessarily Better
• Less Surgery, But Still Some, For Breast Cancer
• Myriad Genetics’ Bullying Starts at the Top
• Mixed Results for Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer Risk
• Spending, Cost, and ‘Value’ of Breast Cancer Treatments
• Tiny Treatment Updates Via Tweet