Two new drugs for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer were tested in separate studies, and scientists say they've made progress in the development of new treatment options.
Two new drugs for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer were tested in separate studies, and scientists say they've made progress in the development of new treatment options.
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Cancer: The facts 01:00One study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, found that adding the experimental drug tucatinib to a chemotherapy regimen consisting of the drugs trastuzumab and capecitabine could improve survival for adults with advanced HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Cancer & Complementary Therapies 03:21Read More"What's so exciting is we have developed multiple new drugs for HER2-positive breast cancer -- we have new drugs for all subtypes of breast cancer -- but the changes are most dramatic in the setting of HER2-positive breast cancer," Winer said. "It is the single area in breast cancer where we have made the most dramatic progress and continue to," he said.
Dr. Ian Krop, a principal investigator of the study and associate chief of the division of breast oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, called the research results"striking" in a press release on Wednesday."These results are particularly striking as trastuzumab deruxtecan prompted a high level of durable tumor reduction among patients, the majority of whom had exhausted most if not all standard therapies for HER2-metastatic breast cancer," he said.
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