Toxicity management and efficacy of lapatinib-capecitabine in elderly patient with lymph node metastasis from HER2-positive occult mammary carcinoma

The overexpression of the HER2 oncoprotein, which corresponds to the genotype-amplification of the HER2/neu oncogene, is reported in 20% of breast tumors. The development of anti-HER2 drugs has improved the prognosis of these particularly aggressive tumors and the positivity to HER2, detected with...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Quarta, Giovanni Zizzari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AboutScience Srl 2018-06-01
Series:AboutOpen
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Online Access:https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/aboutopen/article/view/161