Day 2 Program

Educational Session 8: Optimizing De-escalation in Low-Risk HR+ Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Day 2: December 10, 2025

2:30 PM–4:15 PM CST

Stars at Night 3-4

Session Details

This session reviews the advances in reducing treatment intensity through modern radiotherapy approaches, evaluating when to omit radiation or endocrine therapy, and refining lymph node management strategies.

ED8-01

Advances in breast radiotherapy: Less is more

Jonathan Strauss, Roberts H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

ED8-02

Radiation therapy or endocrine therapy: Which one to omit?

Icro Meattini, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

ED8-03

What do we do with the nodes?

Tari A. King, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Advocate

Marylinn Minor, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Washington D.C., MD