Fulvestrant and the sequential endocrine cascade for advanced breast cancer

Fulvestrant for advanced male breast cancer patients: a case series.

Male breast cancer is rare and treatment recommendations are mainly extrapolated from the results of trials on women. Most breast cancers in men are estrogen receptor (ER)/ progesterone receptor (PgR) positive; as a consequence, tamoxifen remains the standard adjuvant treatment and is also the mainstay first-line treatment of advanced disease, with reported response rates varying from 25% to 80...

[Endocrine therapy for advanced breast cancer].

The demonstrated efficacy of pharmacologic antiestrogen therapy in treating hormone receptor-positive breast cancer has changed the landscape of treatment for the majority of women with metastatic disease, providing them with a well-tolerated therapeutic alternative to surgical oophorectomy and chemotherapy. A multitude of clinical trials have evaluated the various endocrine agents alone or in ...

Surgical endocrine ablation for advanced breast cancer.

Fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer.

PURPOSE Patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer who have responded to tamoxifen (TAM) may receive additional benefit from a second endocrine agent after progression or relapse after TAM therapy. Fulvestrant (FVT; Faslodex; i.m. injection, ICI 182,780; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, DE) was developed as a selective antagonist of estrogen. In postmenopausal women, FVT is reported ...

Activity of fulvestrant in HER2-overexpressing advanced breast cancer.

BACKGROUND Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) overexpression increases the aggressiveness of breast cancer cells resulting in poorer prognosis. Patients with HER2-positive disease are less responsive to endocrine therapies. Trastuzumab monotherapy results in objective responses in only approximately 15% of patients. Fulvestrant retains activity in cells overexpressing HER2 that are...