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Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1574-8928
ISSN (Online): 2212-3970

Perspective

Antibody-drug Conjugates for Breast Cancer Treatment

Author(s): M. Saeed Sheikh* and Ying Huang

Volume 18, Issue 2, 2023

Published on: 27 September, 2022

Page: [108 - 113] Pages: 6

DOI: 10.2174/1574892817666220729121205

Abstract

The use of antibody-drug conjugates is expected to transform the management of human malignancy. Antibody-drug conjugates for cancer treatment are designed to deliver anticancer drugs to tumor cells. The main components of such conjugates are a monoclonal antibody that binds to a tumor antigen, an anticancer drug to inhibit tumor cell growth and a linker that serves to conjugate the antibody and drug. The antibody-drug conjugates developed and approved for breast cancer treatment are ado-trastuzumab emtansine, (fam)-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki and sacituzumab govitecan. The mechanisms of action, clinical uses and toxic effects of these antibody-drug conjugates are discussed.

Keywords: Breast cancer, ado-trastuzumab emtansine, trastuzumab deruxtecan, sacituzumab govitecan, HER2, TROP-2.

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