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/ERBB2) and epidermal growth factor receptor (HER1/EGFR/ERBB1) tyrosine kinases inhibitor. It binds to the intracellular phosphorylation domain to prevent receptor autophosphorylation upon ligand binding.
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.
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori , Divisione di Oncologia Medica B, Napoli, Italy
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Divisione di Oncologia Medica C, Napoli, Italy
Ospedale S. Luca ASL SA 3, Vallo della Lucania, Italy
Baylor College of Medicine Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
University of Alabama - Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
GSK Investigational Site, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Novartis Investigative Site, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Centre François Baclesse, Caen, Calvados, France
Centre G-F Leclerc, Dijon, France
Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
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