Cardiac surveillance for anti-HER2 chemotherapy

Chemotherapy for gastric cancer by finely tailoring anti-Her2 anchored dual targeting immunomicelles.

Micelles with high in vivo serum stability and intratumor accumulation post intravenous (i.v.) injection are highly desired for promoting chemotherapy. Herein, we finely synthesized and tailored well-defined anti-Her2 antibody Fab fragment conjugated immunomicelles (FCIMs), which showed interesting dual targeting function. The thermosensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N,N-dimethylacrylamide...

Recombinant Anti-Human HER2/

Evolving novel anti-HER2 strategies.

The approval of trastuzumab for use in metastatic breast cancer marked a breakthrough in the understanding of the biology of the disease. However, like most cancer therapies, the disease finds a way to advance despite the treatments developed to eradicate it. Although trastuzumab has had a large effect on the treatment of early and advanced-stage disease, a substantial proportion of patients wi...

Use of chemotherapy plus a monoclonal antibody against HER2 for metastatic breast cancer that overexpresses HER2.

BACKGROUND The HER2 gene, which encodes the growth factor receptor HER2, is amplified and HER2 is overexpressed in 25 to 30 percent of breast cancers, increasing the aggressiveness of the tumor. METHODS We evaluated the efficacy and safety of trastuzumab, a recombinant monoclonal antibody against HER2, in women with metastatic breast cancer that overexpressed HER2. We randomly assigned 234 pa...

Trastuzumab plus adjuvant chemotherapy for operable HER2-positive breast cancer.

BACKGROUND We present the combined results of two trials that compared adjuvant chemotherapy with or without concurrent trastuzumab in women with surgically removed HER2-positive breast cancer. METHODS The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project trial B-31 compared doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel every 3 weeks (group 1) with the same regimen plus 52 weeks o...