HR-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer — An Interview with Dr Erika Hamilton on the Potential Role of PROTAC Estrogen Receptor Degraders (Companion Faculty Lecture)
Research To Practice | Oncology Videos · Dr. Neil Love
November 19, 202529m 15s
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Show Notes
Featuring a slide presentation and related discussion from Dr Erika Hamilton, including the following topics:
- Mechanisms of endocrine resistance; incidence of ESR1 mutations in breast cancer (0:00)
- Testing methods for ESR1 mutations in patients with breast cancer; therapeutic options for patients with ESR1-mutant breast cancer (3:59)
- General overview of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs); comparison of PROTAC estrogen receptor (ER) degraders and selective ER degraders (7:39)
- Early-phase data with vepdegestrant monotherapy or in combination with CDK4/6 inhibitors in ER-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (mBC) (11:54)
- Phase III VERITAC-2 trial of vepdegestrant versus fulvestrant in ER-positive, HER2-negative mBC previously treated with endocrine therapy and a CDK4/6 inhibitor (17:48)
- Ongoing clinical trials evaluating vepdegestrant in novel combinations or treatment settings; other clinical applications of PROTACs (26:08)