Treatments of Breast Cancer and Main Drugs

Treatments of breast cancer mainly include surgical treatment, chemotherapy, radioactive therapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, TCM treatment, and immune preparation treatment, etc.

The conventional drugs include: common drugs such as Adriamycin, epirubicin, pirarubicin, and other anthracyclines; taxane chemotherapeutic drugs such as taxol and docetaxel; cyclophosphamide chemotherapeutic drugs; letrozole, anastrozole, docetaxel, capecitabine, gemcitabine, vinorelbine, cisplatin, and carboplatin, etc., all of which are important drugs in the breast cancer treatment area.

Targeted drugs and their classification:

Targeted therapies have merits such as strong specificity, significant efficacy, and small toxic and side effects. The main targets or pathways of the current targeted therapies for breast cancer include HER-2, VEGF, EGFR, PARP, PI3K/Akt/mTOR, and CDK4/6, etc.

References:

1.Breast cancer clinical trials: top drugs under investigation

2. FDA website

Read more:

Breast cancer clinical trials: top drugs under investigation

Summary of main targeted drugs for breast cancer in the market

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