Review Article
Anti-EGFR Therapy: Mechanism and Advances in Clinical Efficacy in Breast Cancer
Table 5
Clinical efficacy of Trastuzumab and Lapatinib as monotherapy agents for metastatic
breast cancer [
26,
27,
30,
39].
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Study | No. of patients |
Initial and following dose | OR (%) | Median TOP and range (months) |
| Trastuzumab | | | | | Baselga et al. [27] | 105 | 8 mg/kg, 6 mg/kg triweekly | 19 | 3.4 (range 0.6–23.6) | Cobleigh et al. [26] | 222 | 4 mg/kg, 2 mg/kg weekly | 15 | 3.1 (range 0–≥28) | Vogel et al. [39] | 114 | 4 mg/kg, 2 mg/kg weekly | 26 | 3.8 (range 3.3–5.3) | | | Or 8 mg/kg, 4 mg/kg weekly | | | Lapatinib | | | | | Gomez et al. [30] | 69 | 1500 mg once daily | 24 | 4.4 (range 0.5–23) | | | Or 500 mg twice daily | | |
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OR: Overall response rate; TOP: Time to progression. To date, most lapatinib
therapies are still in progress and currently being evaluated.
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