Research projects conducted by the German Breast Group
The German Breast Group conducts research into breast cancer, developing and implementing its own study concepts.
With the help of additional scientific research projects, we strive to gain further insights into this disease.
Research News
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31.05.2018 Paper of the month: elderly women and neoadjuvant chemotherapy
A pooled analysis using data from eight GBG trials (GeparDuo, GeparTrio pilot and main, GeparQuattro, AGO-1, PREPARE, TECHNO; GeparQuinto) that aimed to help selecting appropriately the elderly women who would benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been published in the Oncotarget.
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30.04.2018 Paper of the month: survival analysis of the GeparQuinto trial
We are delighted to inform you that the long-term survival analysis of the neoadjuvant GeparQuinto (GBG 44) phase III trial has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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30.03.2018 Paper of the month: March 2018
An analysis of 802 women with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) from the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (GC-HBOC) and GeparSixto (GBG 66) trial that investigated the association between the age at TNBC diagnosis and the presence of pathogenic germline BRCA1/2 mutations has been published in the BMC Cancer.
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28.02.2018 Paper of the month: February 2018
The first results of the BrighTNess trial designed to evaluate the addition of veliparib (a PARP inhibitor) plus carboplatin or carboplatin alone to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have been published in the The Lancet Oncology.
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31.01.2018 Paper of the month: January 2018
A collaborative translational study that included data from six neoadjuvant GBG trials (GeparDuo, GeparTrio, GeparQuattro, GeparQuinto, GeparSixto and GeparSepto) and investigated the role of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) as a prognostic factor in different subtypes of breast cancer after neoadjuvant therapy has been published in the The Lancet Oncology.
Paper of the month
Every month, we present an interesting paper.
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18.11.2022 Desiree: dose escalation of everolimus published
We are proud to inform you that our article A multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase II study to evaluate the tolerability of an induction dose escalation of everolimus in patients with metastatic breast cancer (DESIREE; GBG 86) is now available online.