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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 ...
The Brazilian study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine last year, found that the inability to balance on one leg for 10 seconds translated to an 84 percent higher risk of death ...
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]
Trastuzumab deruxtecan is indicated for the treatment of adults with unresectable (unable to be removed with surgery) or metastatic (when cancer cells spread to other parts of the body) HER2-positive breast cancer who have received two or more prior anti-HER2-based regimens in the metastatic setting and for adults with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal ...
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 ]
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]