![]() Taxanes are a foundation of breast cancer treatment but paclitaxel, which is used to treat metastatic breast cancer, is not absorbed orally. New Phase III study (GS6-01) used encequidar to increase the absorption of oral paclitaxel, otherwise not absorbed orally, resulting in improved overall response rate & lower toxicity compared to IV paclitaxel. My Tweet: Oral administration of drugs have many advantages. ![]() New Oral Chemo Option May Be on the Horizon For readers who want more, I’m including quick summaries with each Tweet below. While it can’t replace full presentations and analysis with nuanced discussion, it can help identify the essential points and the most important takeaways succinctly. For those not familiar with Twitter, it’s a platform that allows just 280 characters to make your point. (Note: you can follow me at and Breast Cancer Action at year, I thought I’d try something new and share some of my tiny Tweets about treatment issues. I can never write up everything for the blog and anyone who is not following along on Twitter, using the identifying hashtag #SABCS19, misses much of my running commentary about the treatments and research being presented. It’s a lot to cover and I try to focus on the results that are most relevant and interesting to our members. Over a thousand papers are presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium each year, and I attend more than 12 hours of presentations and discussions each day.
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