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Breast2024;76103756.August 1, 2024Journal Article
6th and 7th International consensus guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer (ABC guidelines 6 and 7).
Fatima Cardoso1, Shani Paluch-Shimon2, Eva Schumacher-Wulf3, Leonor Matos4, Karen Gelmon5, Matti S Aapro6, Jyoti Bajpai7, Carlos H Barrios8, Jonas Bergh9, Elizabeth Bergsten-Nordström10, Laura Biganzoli11, Maria João Cardoso12, Lisa A Carey13, Mariana Chavez-MacGregor14, Runcie Chidebe15, Javier Cortés16, Giuseppe Curigliano17, Rebecca A Dent18, Nagi S El Saghir19, Alexandru Eniu20, Lesley Fallowfield21, Prudence A Francis22, Sandra X Franco Millan23, Jenny Gilchrist24, Joseph Gligorov25, William J Gradishar26, Renate Haidinger27, Nadia Harbeck28, Xichun Hu29, Ranjit Kaur30, Belinda Kiely31, Sung-Bae Kim32, Smruti Koppikar33, Marion J J Kuper-Hommel34, Frédéric E Lecouvet35, Ginny Mason36, Shirley A Mertz37, Volkmar Mueller38, Claire Myerson39, Silvia Neciosup40, Birgitte V Offersen41, Shinji Ohno42, Olivia Pagani43, Ann H Partridge44, Frédérique Penault-Llorca45, Aleix Prat46, Hope S Rugo47, Elzbieta Senkus48, George W Sledge49, Sandra M Swain50, Christoph Thomssen51, Daniel A Vorobiof52, Peter Vuylsteke53, Theresa Wiseman54, Binghe Xu55, Alberto Costa56, Larry Norton57, Eric P Winer58
1Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Centre/Champalimaud Foundation, and ABC Global Alliance, Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: fatimacardoso@fundacaochampalimaud.pt.
2Hadassah University Hospital - Sharett Institute of Oncology, Jerusalem, Israel.
3Mamma Mia, Kronberg, Germany.
4Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Centre/Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
5BC Cancer Agency, Department of Medical Oncology, Vancouver, Canada.
6Cancer Center, Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland.
7Tata Memorial Centre, HBNI, Mumbai, India.
8Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group (LACOG), Grupo Oncoclínicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
9Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
10Europa Donna - the European Breast Cancer Coalition, Norrkoping, Sweden.
11Department of Oncology, Hospital of Prato - Azienda USL Toscana Centro Prato, Italy and European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Italy.
12Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Centre/Champalimaud Foundation and Lisbon University, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
13UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, USA.
14Health Services Research, Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Houston, USA.
15Project PINKBLUE, Abuja, Nigeria.
16International Breast Cancer Center (IBCC), Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
17European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milano, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milano, Milano, Italy.
18National Cancer Center Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
19NK Basile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
20Hôpital Riviera-Chablais, Vaud-Valais Rennaz, Switzerland and European School of Oncology (ESO), United Kingdom.
21Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
22Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Australia.
23CTIC, Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Bogotá, Colombia.
24Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
25Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Est APHP Tenon, University Paris VI, Nice/St Paul Guidelines, Paris, France.
26Northwestern Medicine, Illinois, USA and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), USA.
27Brustkrebs Deutschland e.V., Munich, Germany.
28Breast Centre, University of Munich, Munich and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, Kommission Mamma (AGO Guidelines), Germany.
29Department of Medical Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.
30Breast Cancer Welfare Association, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
31NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia.
32Asan Medical Centre, Department of Oncology, Seoul, South Korea.
33Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, India.
34Te Whatu Ora Waikato, Midland Regional Cancer Centre, NZ ABC Guidelines, Hamilton, New Zealand.
35Department of Radiology, Institut Roi Albert II and Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
36Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation, West Lafayette, USA.
37MBC US Alliance and Metastatic Breast Cancer Network US, Inverness, USA.
38University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, Kommission Mamma (AGO Guidelines), Germany.
39Breast Cancer Now, London, United Kingdom.
40Department of Medical Oncology, National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima, ABC Latin America Guidelines, Peru.
41Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), Denmark.
42Breast Oncology Centre, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
43Hôpital Riviera-Chablais, Vaud-Valais Rennaz, Switzerland.
44Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology and Division of Breast Oncology, Boston, USA and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), USA.
45Centre Jean Perrin, Université Clermont Auvergne, INSERM, U1240 Imagerie Moléculaire et Stratégies Théranostiques, F-63000, Clermont Ferrand, Nice/St Paul Guidelines, France.
46Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
47Breast Oncology and Clinical Trials Education, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, USA.
48Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
49Division of Oncology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.
50Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and MedStar Health, Washington DC, USA.
51Department of Gynaecology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, Kommission Mamma (AGO Guidelines), Germany.
52Belong.Life, New York, USA.
53University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana and CHU UCL Namur Hospital, UCLouvain, Belgium.
54The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, University of Southampton, United Kingdom and European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS), United Kingdom.
55Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
56European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy and Bellinzona, Switzerland.
57Breast Cancer Programs, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA.
58Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abstract
This manuscript describes the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) international consensus guidelines updated at the last two ABC international consensus conferences (ABC 6 in 2021, virtual, and ABC 7 in 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal), organized by the ABC Global Alliance. It provides the main recommendations on how to best manage patients with advanced breast cancer (inoperable locally advanced or metastatic…
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