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Is there any role for elacestrant in patient who have received prior fulvestrant if they have ESR1 mutation?

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Would you offer elacestrant to patients with ESR1+, HR+/HER2- mBC after progression on fulvestrant?

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Medical Oncology · University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
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The short answer is Yes!!

The pivotal EMERALD trial that led to the approval of Elacestrant (oral Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader) did enroll patients who previously received Fulvestrant (Faslodex).

In a pre-planned subgroup analysis of EMERALD data, benefit of Elacestrant was seen even in subg...

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Medical Oncology · Harvard Medical School
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The phase III EMERALD trial represented an important paradigm shift for HR+ metastatic breast cancer management (Bidard et al., PMID 35584336). This randomized prospective open-label study enrolled patients with advanced/metastatic HR+/HER2- breast cancer with prior progression on 1-2 endocrine ther...

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Medical Oncology · Ohio State University
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As pointed out by the other experts, the EMERALD Trial did enroll patients with ESR1 mutation positive HR+/HER2- breast cancer who previously received fulvestrant, and such patients appeared to derive similar benefit from elacestrant as patients who were not previously treated with fulvestrant as no...

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