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ReviewCancers2024

Recent Progress in Treatment for HER2-Positive Advanced Gastric Cancer.

Takeshi Kawakami, Kentaro Yamazaki

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Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The evolution of cellular-based immunotherapy in the treatment of gastric cancer: an overview of clinical trials.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Takeshi KawakamiDivision of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka 411-0934, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9385-9516
Kentaro YamazakiDivision of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka 411-0934, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human epidermal receptor (HER) 2-positive advanced gastric cancer is one of the major subtypes of gastric cancer, accounting for ~20% of all cases. Although combination therapy with trastuzumab and chemotherapy provides meaningful survival benefit, clinical trials targeting HER2 have failed to demonstrate clinical benefits in first- or subsequent-line treatment. Trastuzumab deruxtecan, an antibody-drug conjugate, has shown positive results even in later-line treatment and has become new standard treatment. In first-line therapy, combination therapy with pembrolizumab and trastuzumab plus chemotherapy demonstrated a dramatic response rate. Therefore, the FDA rapidly approved it without waiting for the results of survival time. The emergence of combination therapy including immunotherapy with HER2-targeting agents and the development of HER2 targeting agents with or without immunotherapy have been advancing for treating HER2-positive gastric cancer. In this review, we will discuss the current status of treatment development and future perspectives for HER2-positive gastric cancer.

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ERBB2gastric cancerHER2 overexpressionimmunotherapytreatment advance

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PMID38730700
PMCPMC11083522

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