Role of lapatinib alone or in combination in the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer

Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-51

  Hurvitz, Sara A ^a   Kakkar, Reva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Central nervous system metastases; Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; Trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; FULVESTRANT; LAPATINIB; LETROZOLE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PLACEBO; TAMOXIFEN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TRASTUZUMAB;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANOREXIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPEPSIA; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; METASTASIS; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TOXICITY; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

EID: 84862520261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/bctt.s29996     Document Type: Review

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