Lapatinib is an anti-cancer drug developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as a treatment for solid tumours such as breast and lung cancer. It was approved by the FDA on March 13, 2007, for use in patients with advanced metastatic breast cancer in conjunction with the chemotherapy drug capecitabine. Lapatinib is a human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2...
Indicated in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors overexpress the human epidermal receptor type 2 (HER2) protein and who have received prior therapy including an anthracycline, a taxane, and trastuzumab.
GSK Investigational Site, Buffalo, New York, United States
Novartis Investigative Site, Shatin, Hong Kong
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Hamilton, Hamilton, New Jersey, United States
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Novartis Investigative Site, Worthing, United Kingdom
Beth Israel, New York, New York, United States
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
University of Wisconsin Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
CCOP, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
CCOP, Hematology-Oncology Associates of CNY, Syracuse, New York, United States
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
GSK Investigational Site, Tau-Yuan County, Taiwan
GSK Investigational Site, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
GSK Investigational Site, Tokyo, Japan
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