The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has released five new guidelines at the ESC Congress 2019, recommending an even lower LDL-C* target in patients at very high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and the use of SGLT2** inhibitors and GLP-1*** receptor agonists as first-line treatments in those with diabetes to reduce their CVD risk.

Five years of extended therapy with the aromatase inhibitor (AI) letrozole did not improve survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to findings of the NRG Oncology/NSABP B-42 trial presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS 2016) held in Texas, US. 

Adding everolimus to fulvestrant in second-line treatment of hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer improves progression-free survival (PFS) by 40 percent, the phase II PrECOG 0102 study has shown. [SABCS 2016, abstract S1-02]