Emerging strategies for the dual inhibition of HER2-positive breast cancer

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-65

  Konecny, Gottfried E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dual inhibition; HER2 positive breast cancer; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; pertuzumab; T DM1

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; EVEROLIMUS; LAPATINIB; PACLITAXEL; PERTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB EMTANSINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIMERIZATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; MONOTHERAPY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAYTANSINE; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 84873095219     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32835c5e90     Document Type: Review

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