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ArticleGeburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde2021

New Therapeutic Strategies in Advanced Nonoperable or Metastatic HER2-positive Breast Cancer.

Diana Lüftner, Matthias Peipp

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Article in Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diana LüftnerMedizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hämatologie, Onkologie und Tumorimmunologie, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Matthias PeippSektion für Stammzelltransplantation und Immuntherapie, Dr. Mildred-Scheel-Haus, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversity of Lübeck · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite therapeutic gains in the treatment of HER2-positive (HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) advanced/metastatic breast cancer, there remains an urgent need for more effective treatment options. At present, there is no definitive approved standard therapy beyond second-line treatment. One of the major challenges is overcoming treatment resistance. Depending on the underlying resistance mechanism, different strategies are being pursued for new innovative treatment concepts in HER2-positive breast cancer. Specifically designed antibodies for targeted therapy are one important focus to successfully meet these challenges. Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd, DS-8201a), an optimised antibody drug conjugate (ADC) is in clinical trials, showing promising outcomes in patients with advanced, nonoperable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who had already undergone intensive prior treatment. Based on this data, T-DXd has already been approved in the US and Japan for HER2-positive advanced nonoperable and metastatic breast cancer - in the US after at least two prior anti-HER2 targeted treatment lines and in Japan after prior chemotherapy. T-DXd represents successful "antibody engineering". Since the beginning of the year, T-DXd has also been approved in Europe as monotherapy for inoperable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer in patients who are pretreated with at least two anti-HER2 directed therapies. This paper presents strategies for improving treatment options in advanced nonoperable and metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, with the development of T-DXd as an example.

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antibodyantibody-drug conjugateDS-8201HER2-targeted treatment optionsmetastatic HER2-positive breast cancerT-DXd

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PMID34168380
PMCPMC8216785
OpenAlexW3176149878

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