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ER and effectively inhibits the signaling pathway of Estrogen tamoxifen or AI fulvestrant clinical efficacy has in good reps Shown possibility when used as first-line treatment, used second or third in postmenopausal women, hormone receptor-positive YM155 MBC. It has a similar activity T of tamoxifen, when used as first-line treatment, and it has a similar activity T IA, when used as second-line therapy in patients with the disease tamoxifenresistant. When used in patients with the disease AIresistant, it was connected to a clinical benefit rate of approx. Studies are under way to determine if a loading dose is more effective than the standard dose and, including normal I FINDER, FINDER II studies and CONFIRM.
Postmenopausal hormone receptor-positive MBC, tamoxifen or AI are generally used as first-line ET used fulvestrant after progression on first-line treatment. Hyperactivation of Ras-MAPK pathway fgfr is brought as a mechanism of resistance in ET breast cancer. Although originally developed for tumors with Ras mutations leading to constitutive activation of the Ras signaling pathway, inhibitors of the Ras pathway. Farnesyl as inhibitors in cell lines of breast cancer xenografts active and which have no Ras mutations This is an important musing as Ras mutations in breast cancer are rare. Tipifarnib produces a CBR evapotranspiration and resistant to chemotherapy or MBC in a test. Preclinical studies have shown that the antitumor effect of tamoxifen Tipifarnib increases the Estrogen dependent-Dependent breast cancer cells lines and xenograft models to overcome either or Pr Prevention resistance emergence delay Delay Ph Phenotype resistance.
We have assumed that tipifarnib could improve the clinical efficacy of fulvestrant in overcoming the resistance mechanisms and attempts to determine the effectiveness and safety of the combination of tipifarnib fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with HR positive MBC. Patients and Methods postmenopausal women eligible patients with adenocarcinoma HRpositive histologically or cytologically best Beneficiaries breast with locally advanced or metastatic disease were surgically curable f Rderf compatibility available. HR positive disease was defined as positive for Estrogen receptors and progesterone by the local institutional laboratory. Patients were required to have not received chemotherapy for their metastatic disease.
The study initially Highest ETresistant disease for all patients, the progression of the disease w Was during the tamoxifen or AI therapy for metastatic disease or relapse of adjuvant tamoxifen or AI therapy defines required. After nine patients in the study were accrued have revised eligibility criteria, a second layer of postmenopausal women who had not previously ET result of new information, which include the efficacy of fulvestrant in this population MBC patients. Other important inclusion criteria included at least one measurable L Sion on the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors, ? Years, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of zero to two K Body and ad Quate bone marrow function. Patients U back to a previous dose of fulvestrant were likely to b