Trastuzumab or lapatinib with standard chemotherapy for HER2-positive breast cancer: Results from the GEICAM/2006-14 trial

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1139-1147

  Alba, E ^a   Albanell, J ^b   De La Haba, J ^c   Barnadas, A ^d   Calvo, L ^e   Sanchez Rovira P ^f   Ramos, M ^g   Rojo, F ^b,h   Burgues O ⁱ   Carrasco, E ^j   Caballero, R ^j   Porras, I ^c   Tibau, A ^d   Camara M C ^j   Lluch, A ⁱ  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

^b Parc de Salut Mar   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^f Hospital General de Jaen   (Spain)

^g Centro Oncologico de Galicia   (Spain)

^h Department of Pathology Fundación Jiménez Díaz ^*  (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^j GEICAM (Spanish Breast Cancer Research Group)   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Biomarkers; HER2 positive breast cancer; Lapatinib; Neoadjuvant; Trastuzumab

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LAPATINIB; TRASTUZUMAB; TUMOR MARKER;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; ONCOGENE NEU;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TAXOIDS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84895788887     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.831     Document Type: Article

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