Gunter von Minckwitz, MD, director of the German Breast Group Research Institute, discusses lessons learned from clinical trials examining neoadjuvant therapies in patients with breast cancer.

More research needs to be conducted to understand the optimal use of neoadjuvant therapy, von Minckwitz explains. Biomarkers have been developed in order to determine response to treatment, as well as serve as predictive markers of pathologic complete response rates and poor predictive markers of outcomes.

Additionally, researchers can develop findings from a correlative marker in the neoadjuvant setting that can be then confirmed to the adjuvant setting.

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Dr. von Minckwitz on Lessons Learned From Neoadjuvant Trials in Breast Cancer