Drugs for HER-2-positive Breast Cancer

Growth factor receptors have long been known to drive malignant transformation and cancer progression. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR, ErbB, HER) system is likely the best described membrane receptor tyrosine kinase family in malignant tumors. With implementation of the growth-inhibitory...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sibilia, Maria (Editor ), Zielinski, Christoph C. (Editor ), Bartsch, Rupert (Editor ), Grunt, Thomas W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Milestones in Drug Therapy,
Temas:
Pharmacology.
Oncology.
Cancer.
Immunospecificity.
Immunology.
Internal medicine.
Cancer Biology.
Adaptive Immunity.
Internal Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Drugs for HER-2-positive Breast Cancer: A Major Approval for Translational Cancer Research (Maria Sibilia, Christoph C. Zielinski, Rupert Bartsch, Thomas Grunt)
  • The EGFR/ErbB family in breast cancer: from signaling to therapy (Wolfgang J. Köstler and Yosef Yarden)
  • Trastuzumab as Adjuvant treatment for early stage HER-2 positive breast cancer (Rupert Bartsch and Guenther G. Steger)
  • Trastuzumab Resistance in breast cancer (Floriana Morgillo, Michele Orditura, Teresa Troiani, Erika Martinelli, Ferdinando De Vita, Fortunato Ciardiello)
  • Treatment with Trastuzumab beyond Progression (Gunter von Minckwitz and Cristina Pirvulescu)
  • Pertuzumab - a HER-2 dimerisation inhibitor - for the treatment of breast and other cancers (Giulia Bianchi and Luca Gianni)
  • Beyond trastuzumab: Second generation targeted therapies for HER2--positive breast cancer (Flavio F. Solca, Guenther R. Adolf, Hilary Jones, Martina M. Uttenreuther-Fischer).

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