HER-2-positive metastatic breast cancer: Trastuzumab and beyond

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2583-2601

  Metro, Giulio ^a   Mottolese, Marcella ^a   Fabi, Alessandra ^a  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; Lapatinib; Metastatic breast cancer; Pertuzumab; Trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; ADAM10 PROTEIN INHIBITOR; ANASTROZOLE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; EVEROLIMUS; GEMCITABINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; LAPATINIB; LETROZOLE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PERTUZUMAB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; TANESPIMYCIN; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASTHENIA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME INHIBITION; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYALGIA; NAIL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VOMITING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CISPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NITRILES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TRIAZOLES; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 55249119148     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656566.9.15.2583     Document Type: Review

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