Breast Cancer

Researchers from Humanitas Clinical Institute Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Breast Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 24th, 2011

2011 FEB 24 -- "Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) was shown as active but less toxic compared to doxorubicin in advanced breast cancer. Given its low cardiotoxicity, the combination of PLD and trastuzumab appears most attractive in the treatment of human epidermal factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer," scientists in Rozzano, Italy report.

"We investigated the activity of 8 courses of PLD in combination with cisplatin and infusional 5-fluorouracil (CCF) plus 3-week trastuzumab in patients with primary or recurrent cT2-T4 a-d, N0-3, MO any estrogen receptor (ER), HER2-positive breast cancer. with ER and/or progesterone receptor (PgR) 10% tumors...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-02-24)

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