Current and emerging targeted therapies for metastatic breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3014-3025

  Perez, Edith A ^a   Spano, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor receptor; Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; Metastatic breast cancer; Multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors; Targeted therapies

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; AFLIBERCEPT; AXITINIB; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CIXUTUMUMAB; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ERLOTINIB; EVEROLIMUS; FULVESTRANT; LAPATINIB; LETROZOLE; MAYTANSINE; NAVELBINE; NERATINIB; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PERTUZUMAB; PLACEBO; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; RIDAFOROLIMUS; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TEMSIROLIMUS; TRASTUZUMAB; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANDETANIB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACNE; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; INFECTION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOLID TUMOR; SOMNOLENCE; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 84861594992     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26356     Document Type: Review

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