Addition of GM-CSF to trastuzumab stabilises disease in trastuzumab-resistant HER2+ metastatic breast cancer patients

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1331-1334

  Cheng, Y C ^a,b   Valero, V ^b   Davis, M L ^b   Green, M C ^b   Gonzalez Angulo, A M ^b   Theriault, R L ^b   Murray, J L ^b   Hortobagyi, G N ^b   Ueno, N T ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor; HER2; metastatic breast cancer; trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MYALGIA; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, ERBB-2; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 77958563900     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605918     Document Type: Article

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