Beth A Overmoyer

Beth Ann Overmoyer (born 1960) is an American physician and oncologist. She is Director of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Program at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.

Early life and education Overmoyer was an undergraduate student in biology and graduated magna cum laude. She was a medical student at the Case Western Reserve University, before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for her internship and medical residency. She became interested in oncology in the late eighties, when she started researching breast cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She dedicated her career to breast cancer prevention and the treatment of early-stage disease. Alongside leading several clinical trials, early in her career she was involved with a review into the United States Department of Defense funding for breast cancer research. She was one of the first to demonstrate high dose chemotherapy – autologous stem-cell transplantation to treat metastatic carcinoma.

In 2007, Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare, fast-growing disease, which causes the lymph vessels within breast skins to become clogged with tumor cells. Overmoyer established the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Registry, a repository of information and tumor samples to aid with the understanding and diagnosis of the disease.

Overmoyer studied the clinical benefits of Enobosarm (an androgen receptor modulator) in patients with androgen receptor positive and estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. She found that Enobosarm was well tolerated, safe and showed clinical benefit.

She is also an assistant professor of medicine and Harvard Medical School.

Selected publications