Produced in CHO cell cultures, trastuzumab is a recombinant IgG1 kappa, humanized monoclonal antibody that selectively binds with high affinity in a cell-based assay (Kd = 5 nM) to the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor protein (HER2). It is used as a treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2+ metastatic bre...
For the adjuvant treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, trastuzumab is indicated in several clinical settings: as part of a treatment regimen consisting of doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and either paclitaxel or docetaxel; as part of a treatment regimen with docetaxel and carboplatin; or as monotherapy following multi-modality anthracycline-based th...
University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
"Laikon" General Hospital, Medical Oncology Unit, Propedeutic Dep of Internal Medicine, Athens, Greece
University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Dep of Medical Oncology, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Dept of Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
VA Maryland Health Care Dept.of GreenbaumCancerCent(3), Baltimore, Maryland, United States
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States
LAC USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
St. Barnabas Cancer Center, Livingston, New Jersey, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Bunting-Blaustein Cancer Research, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
UAB Cancer Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
GSK Investigational Site, Yakima, Washington, United States
Local Institution, Izmir, Turkey
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
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