Contemporary monograph on the treatment of breast cancer.-

Gives a comprehensive account of drugs for HER2-positive breast cancer.-

A valuable source of information for researchers and clinicians from the fields of oncology and pharmacology

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Drugs for HER-2-positive Breast Cancer: A Major Approval for Translational Cancer Research (Maria Sibilia, Christoph C. Zielinski, Rupert Bartsch, Thomas Grunt).- The EGFR/ErbB family in breast cancer: from signaling to therapy (Wolfgang J. Köstler and Yosef Yarden).- Trastuzumab as Adjuvant treatment for early stage HER-2 positive breast cancer (Rupert Bartsch and Guenther G. Steger).- Trastuzumab Resistance in breast cancer (Floriana Morgillo, Michele Orditura, Teresa Troiani, Erika Martinelli, Ferdinando De Vita, Fortunato Ciardiello).- Treatment with Trastuzumab beyond Progression (Gunter von Minckwitz and Cristina Pirvulescu).- Pertuzumab - a HER-2 dimerisation inhibitor - for the treatment of breast and other cancers (Giulia Bianchi and Luca Gianni).- Beyond trastuzumab: Second generation targeted therapies for HER2--positive breast cancer (Flavio F. Solca, Guenther R. Adolf, Hilary Jones, Martina M. Uttenreuther-Fischer).