Erin Roesch

Jan 6, 2025 | mdedge.com | Erin Roesch

Based on the work you do at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, what is your standard approach to managing  early stage cancer patients? Dr. Roesch: The approach to managing patients with early stage breast cancer very much depends on the subtype of breast cancer. Clinical stage at presentation and patient factors are considered here.

Aug 21, 2024 | ascopubs.org | Erin Roesch

Metastatic breast cancer (mBC) remains an incurable disease, and most patients will experience disease progression during their treatment course. Although endocrine therapy remains the mainstay of treatment for hormone receptor–positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative mBC, significant progress has been and continues to be made in the treatment of this BC subtype.

Jun 24, 2024 | healio.com | Josh Friedman |Mindy Valcarcel |Weidong Lu |Erin Roesch

You've successfully added Breast Cancer to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Key takeaways: Women with breast cancer receiving endocrine therapy had fewer, less severe hot flashes after receiving early acupuncture. Immediate acupuncture also improved quality-of-life scores.

Apr 30, 2024 | mdedge.com | Erin Roesch

Support for de-escalation of axillary surgery for select patients, specifically those with cT1-2, node-negative breast cancer and a positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, has been demonstrated in prior studies, including the ACOSOG Z0011 and AMAROS trials.[1,2] Both of these trials showed no benefit of completion axillary-node dissection (ALND) after 10 years of follow-up for these patients, and higher rates of lymphedema for ALND were observed in AMAROS.

Mar 27, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stephanie Valente |Erin Roesch

1 BREAST CANCER SURVIVORSHIP Breast cancer survivorship means different things to different people. According to its definition, breast cancer survivorship begins at diagnosis, continues during treatment, and maintains through the rest of life.1 A patient is considered “cancer free” after surgical resection essentially clears the body of cancer; adjuvant radiation and systemic therapy are aimed to keep that patient “cancer free” for the remainder of their life.