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.
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Royal Marsden Hosital, Sutton, England, United Kingdom
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
The University of Kansas Cancer Center, Westwood, Kansas, United States
Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Group, San Francisco, California, United States
Honor Health Research Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California, United States
University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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