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.
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States
Federico II University Medical School, Naples, Italy
Research Site, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
Hopital Dupuytren, Limoges Cedex, France
Centre Eugene Marquis, Rennes, France
Masonic Cancer Center at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, United States
Massachusetts General Hosptial, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Hackensack University, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
St. Luke's Cancer Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
NEA Clinic, Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
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