Fulvestrant is a drug treatment of hormone receptor (HR)-positive metastatic breast cancer in post-menopausal women with disease progression following anti-estrogen therapy. It is an estrogen receptor antagonist with no agonist effects, which works both by down-regulating and by degrading the estrogen receptor. While it is used as monotherapy for the treatment of breast cancers, it is also used in combination with alpelisib for the treatment of HR-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, PIK3CA-mutated, advanced or metastatic breast cancer
For the treatment of hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression following anti-estrogen therapy, as monotherapy or in combination with other antineoplastic agents.
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nebraska Hematology Onco, PC, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Mater Hospital; Patricia Ritchie Centre for Cancer Care and Research, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Studienzentrum Onkologie Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Novartis Investigative Site, Napoli, Italy
VUmc, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OLVG, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gelre ziekenhuizen, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States
University of California San Diego Medical Center; Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, United States
Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, United States
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Michigan State University, Breslin Cancer Center, Lansing, Michigan, United States
New York University Clinical Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Research Site 34, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Research Site 38, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Research Site 6, Southampton, United Kingdom
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