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Breast Cancer Therapy

Bispecific antibody MDX-H210 with filgrastim highly effective in early trials

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 22nd, 2004

The immunotherapy regimen of MDX-H210 and filgrastim was highly effective for advanced breast cancer patients in an early clinical trial.

According to researchers in Germany, a "phase I study of the bispecific antibody MDX-H210 in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was performed in stage IV breast carcinoma patients, overexpressing HER-2/neu."

"MDX-H210, constructed by crosslinking antigen binding fragments (F(ab') fragments) of monoclonal antibody (mAb) H22 to Fc gamma receptor I (FcgammaRI), and mAb 520C9 to HER-2/neu, respectively, mediates the lysis of tumor cells in vitro, and in human FcgammaRI transgenic mouse...

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