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...
Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office, Montevideo, Uruguay
CCOP, Cancer Research for the Ozarks, Springfield, Missouri, United States
Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
University Hospital and Medical Center - SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office, Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Divisione di Oncologia Medica C, Napoli, Italy
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Divisione di Oncologia Medica C, Napoli, Italy
Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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