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    Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009 Dec;9(12):1715-25.

    Bevacizumab and breast cancer: current therapeutic progress and future perspectives.

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    National Clinical Target Validation Laboratory, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Building, 37/Room 1048, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. xy32m@nih.gov

    Abstract

    Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody to VEGF, and the incorporation of bevacizumab to chemotherapy is one of the rapidly evolving areas in the treatment of breast cancer. Bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone improves progression-free survival and increases the response rate in first-line therapy for locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. This approach has been and is still being evaluated for early breast cancer in neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. Bevacizumab is well tolerated and has an established tolerability profile. Both tumor- and host-related biomarkers of bevacizumab activity, response and benefit are emerging from Phase I, II and III clinical trials. The biomarkers of benefit will ultimately help identify the subgroups of patients who specifically benefit from anti-VEGF therapy with bevacizumab.

    PMID:
    19954282
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC2819039
    Free PMC Article

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