The role of taxanes in triple-negative breast cancer: Literature review

Drug Design, Development and Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 4303-4318

  Mustacchi, Giorgio ^a   de Laurentiis, Michelino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Docetaxel; Nab paclitaxel; Paclitaxel

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ENZALUTAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; IXABEPILONE; NAVELBINE; OLAPARIB; PACLITAXEL; PEGFILGRASTIM; PERTUZUMAB; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB; 130-NM ALBUMIN-BOUND PACLITAXEL; ALBUMINOID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAXOID;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PACLITAXEL; TAXOIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84939824478     PISSN: 11778881     EISSN: 11778881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S86105     Document Type: Review

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