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Springer Handbook of HER2-targeted agents in breast cancer 1st Editon 2014 Softbound by Ricardo H Alvarez, Javier Cortés, Leticia Mattos-Arruda, Mary Falzon, Angelica Fasolo, Michael Gandy, Luca Gianni, Nadia Harbeck, Martine Piccart, Stefania Zambelli, Dimitrios Zardavas
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total new cancer cases each year. Of these cases, approximately 15–25% overexpress HER2, a transmembrane RTK kinase that is associated with aggressive tumor growth and poor outcomes. However, in the past decade, survival rates of patients with HER-positive breast cancer have significantly improved due to increased screening, HER2 testing, and breakthrough HER2-targeted drug therapies.Handbook of HER2-Targeted Agents in Breast Cancer provides oncologists, primary care physicians, trainees and other healthcare providers with a concise, accessible, and up-to-date survey of the field, including a review of our current understanding of the biology of the HER2 pathway and the rationale for targeting it in early-stage and advanced breast cancer, an overview of HER2-testing, and evidence-based discussions of available HER2-targeted regimens in the adjuvant and metastatic settings. Introduction and background biology.- HER2 testing.- HER2-positive breast cancer: adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy.- HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: first-line treatment.- HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: second-line treatment.- Emerging targeted agents for HER2-positive breast cancer.