Eribulin Mesylate in the management of metastatic breast cancer and other solid cancers: A drug review

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 649-665

  Polastro, Laura ^a   Aftimos, Philippe G ^a   Awada, Ahmad ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

breast cancer; chemotherapy; eribulin; review; solid tumor

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DENOSUMAB; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERIBULIN; EVEROLIMUS; EXEMESTANE; GEMCITABINE; IXABEPILONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LAPATINIB; LETROZOLE; PACLITAXEL; PERTUZUMAB; PLACEBO; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB EMTANSINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ETHER DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HALICHONDRIN B; KETONE; MACROLIDE; NEW DRUG; TUBULIN MODULATOR;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ASTHENIA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMONIA; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONSIL CANCER; TREATMENT INDICATION; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); SECONDARY; UNITED STATES;

ALOPECIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; DRUGS, INVESTIGATIONAL; ETHERS, CYCLIC; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FURANS; HUMANS; KETONES; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TUBULIN MODULATORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84901393389     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.2014.920693     Document Type: Review

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