Pertuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer

Current Medical Research and Opinion

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1709-1716

  Sendur, Mehmet A N ^a   Aksoy, Sercan ^b   Altundag, Kadri ^b  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anti HER2 treatment; Breast cancer; HER2; Pertuzumab; Trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ANASTROZOLE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; LAPATINIB; NAVELBINE; NERATINIB; PACLITAXEL; PERTUZUMAB; PLACEBO; TRASTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB EMTANSINE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLON CANCER; DIARRHEA; DIMERIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2 POSITIVE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER; FATIGUE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; OVARY CANCER; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PUBMED; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TAXOIDS;

EID: 84867881041     PISSN: 03007995     EISSN: 14734877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1185/03007995.2012.728132     Document Type: Review

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