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.
Novartis Investigative Site, Worthing, United Kingdom
Novartis Investigative Site, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
The Medical Oncology Centre of Rosebank, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Bangkok-noi, Bangkok, Thailand
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Cotton-O-Neil Cancer Center (Stormont Vail Health Care), Topeka, Kansas, United States
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
"IASO" General Hospital of Athens, 1st Dep of Medical Oncology, Athens, Greece
University Hospital of Crete, Dep of Medical Oncology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Novartis Investigative Site, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
GSK Investigational Site, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Tennessee Oncology, PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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