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The fixed-dose combination of pertuzumab, trastuzumab, and hyaluronidase was approved for medical use in the United States in June 2020. [5] [10]The FDA's approval was based on the results of a non-inferiority study in participants with HER2-positive early breast cancer, which demonstrated the fixed-dose combination of pertuzumab, trastuzumab, and hyaluronidase had comparable efficacy and ...
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Pertuzumab is administered as an intravenous infusion in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel as a first line treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. [4] [3] It is also used in the same combination as a neoadjuvant (given to reduce the size of a tumor, prior to surgery or radiation) for HER2-positive early breast cancer; as of 2016 this use had not been shown to increase ...
Results showed that patients treated with trastuzumab emtansine had a median progression-free survival of 9.6 months compared to 6.4 months in patients treated with lapatinib plus capecitabine. [18] The median overall survival was 30.9 months in the trastuzumab emtansine group and 25.1 months in the lapatinib plus capecitabine group. [18]
Trastuzumab, sold under the brand name Herceptin among others, is a monoclonal antibody used to treat breast cancer and stomach cancer. [30] [27] [31] [32] It is specifically used for cancer that is HER2 receptor positive. [30]
Revumenib, sold under the brand name Revuforj, is an anti-cancer medication used for the treatment of acute leukemias harboring lysine methyltransferase 2A gene (KMT2A) rearrangements. [1] It is designed to disrupt the interaction between menin and KMT2A (also known as MLL), which plays a role in the pathogenesis of these leukemias. [ 2 ]
Nivolumab/hyaluronidase, sold under the brand name Opdivo Qvantig, is a fixed-dose combination anti-cancer medication used for the treatment of various forms of cancer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Nivolumab/hyaluronidase contains nivolumab , a programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1)-blocking monoclonal antibody ; and hyaluronidase , an endoglycosidase . [ 1 ]
A human recombinant hyaluronidase kit, Hyqvia, was approved for use in the European Union in May 2013, [25] and in the United States in September 2014. [26] [27] It is a dual vial unit with one vial of immune globulin infusion 10% (human) and one vial of recombinant human hyaluronidase. [12]