Epidemiology of brain metastases

L Nayak, EQ Lee, PY Wen - Current oncology reports, 2012 - Springer
Brain metastases are one of the most common neurologic complications of cancer. The
incidence is 9%–17% based on various studies, although the exact incidence is thought to …

Treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer: current status and future perspectives

CL Arteaga, MX Sliwkowski, CK Osborne… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2012 - nature.com
The advent of HER2-directed therapies has significantly improved the outlook for patients
with HER2-positive early stage breast cancer. However, a significant proportion of these …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer, physical activity, and exercise

JC Brown, K Winters-Stone, A Lee… - Comprehensive …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review examines the relationship between physical activity and cancer along the
cancer continuum, and serves as a synthesis of systematic and meta-analytic reviews …

Incidence of heart failure or cardiomyopathy after adjuvant trastuzumab therapy for breast cancer

J Chen, JB Long, A Hurria, C Owusu… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to estimate heart failure (HF) and cardiomyopathy
(CM) rates after adjuvant trastuzumab therapy and chemotherapy in a population of older …

Lapatinib distribution in HER2 overexpressing experimental brain metastases of breast cancer

KS Taskar, V Rudraraju, RK Mittapalli, R Samala… - Pharmaceutical …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose Lapatinib, a small molecule EGFR/HER2 inhibitor, partially inhibits the outgrowth of
HER2+ brain metastases in preclinical models and in a subset of CNS lesions in clinical …

Multiorgan Metastasis of Human HER-2+ Breast Cancer in Rag2−/−;Il2rg−/− Mice and Treatment with PI3K Inhibitor

P Nanni, G Nicoletti, A Palladini, S Croci, A Murgo… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In vivo studies of the metastatic process are severely hampered by the fact that most human
tumor cell lines derived from highly metastatic tumors fail to consistently metastasize in …

Current and emerging targeted therapies for metastatic breast cancer

EA Perez, JP Spano - Cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The success of endocrine therapies for hormone receptor‐positive breast cancer and
trastuzumab and lapatinib for targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) …

Echocardiography signs of early cardiac impairment in patients with breast cancer and trastuzumab therapy

SA Lange, B Ebner, A Wess, M Kögel, M Gajda… - Clinical Research in …, 2012 - Springer
Objective Recent studies in breast cancer patients and Trastuzumab therapy (Herceptin)
showed a development of a toxic cardiomyopathy as a severe complication. The aim of this …

Outcomes of women with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant trastuzumab

MD Seal, CH Speers, S O'Reilly, KA Gelmon… - Current …, 2012 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Large randomized trials assessing the benefit of adjuvant trastuzumab in early-
stage breast cancer positive for the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (her 2) have …

Personalizing cardiovascular disease prevention among breast cancer survivors

A Singla, G Kumar, A Bardia - Current opinion in cardiology, 2012 - journals.lww.com
It is important to weigh both the risk of CVD and that of breast cancer recurrence in a breast
cancer survivor. Certain interventions for the primary prevention of CVD, including diet …