HonCode

Go Back   HER2 Support Group Forums > Articles of Interest
Register Gallery FAQ Members List Calendar Today's Posts

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-26-2006, 05:30 AM   #1
Lani
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 4,778
Here it is: How her2+ breast cancer quickly becomes resistant to lapatinib unless ER

pathway blocked by AI, fulvestrant use

http://www.tmdlab.com/pdfs/060619/PNAS2006_ErbB2.pdf
Lani is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-26-2006, 08:10 AM   #2
heblaj01
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 543
Thanks,Lani,for posting this important article.
Based on various articles previously posted by several members it is possible that a similar process of resistance to Herceptin is also involving the so called crosstalk with ER.
This gives more support to the intuition expressed by Dr Pegram in an earlier interview where he implied that among the anti estrogen drugs Fulvestrant in combination with Herceptin might be the best choice since it suppresses the estrogen receptor rather than circulating estrogen thus leaving no possibility of crosstalk.
Nevertheless,judging from a small poll of members taking Herceptin plus one of the aromatase inhibitors (such as Femara, Arimidex etc...) good response was reported without the help of Fulvestrant.

The full report of the small phase 2 trial of Arimidex+Herceptin is supposed to be released by Roche at the end of september 2006 at a meeting of European
oncologists in Turkey.
heblaj01 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:35 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright HER2 Support Group 2007 - 2021
free webpage hit counter