Clinical overview of sorafenib in breast cancer

Future Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 655-663

  Moreno Aspitia, Alvaro ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Sorafenib; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT; GEMCITABINE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; IXABEPILONE; LETROZOLE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; SORAFENIB; TAMOXIFEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHENIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; TUMOR REGRESSION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BENZENESULFONATES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PYRIDINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77952502755     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.10.41     Document Type: Review

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