Triple-negative breast cancer: Treatment challenges and solutions

Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 93-107

  Collignon, Joëlle ^a   Lousberg, Laurence ^a   Schroeder, Hélène ^a   Jerusalem, Guy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; BRCA1 2 mutation; Molecular subtype; Platinum based chemotherapy; Targeted therapy; Triple negative breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTHRACYCLINE; BEVACIZUMAB; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIRUBICIN; EVEROLIMUS; INIPARIB; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OLAPARIB; PACLITAXEL; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROTEIN P53; RUCAPARIB; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; UNINDEXED DRUG; VELIPARIB;

ANEMIA; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER;

EID: 84975322586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/BCTT.S69488     Document Type: Review

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