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Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Trastuzumab, In Vitro and In Vivo
Trastuzumab, a humanized anti-HER2 antibody, increases the clinical benefit of first-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancers that overexpress HER2. By using multiple drug effect/combination index isobologram analysis, Pegram et al. (p. 739) characterized interactions between trastuzumab and several chemotherapeutic agents commonly used in the treatment of breast cancer. The authors found that, at a wide range of clinically achievable drug concentrations, carboplatin, 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide, docetaxel, and vinorelbine each interacted synergistically with trastuzumab in four breast cancer cell lines, whereas doxorubicin, epirubicin, and paclitaxel each interacted additively. The authors also observed a synergistic interaction with
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