Breast Cancer – Targeted Drug Therapy
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Targeted Drug Therapies for Breast Cancer Treatment
In addition to chemotherapy drugs, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) uses a variety of targeted drugs for breast cancer treatment. Your CTCA physician might prescribe hormonal therapies, such as SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators) or aromatase inhibitors to prevent estrogen from reaching your tumor. This helps to slow the growth and reproduction of breast cancer cells.
You might need to take tamoxifen, the most common hormone therapy drug used today for both early and advanced stage breast cancer treatment, if you are at high risk of breast cancer, or to prevent a breast cancer recurrence.
In addition to hormone breast cancer therapies, biological response modifiers, like Herceptin (Trastuzumab), are drugs that bind with specific proteins on breast cancer cells to prevent their growth. You may be prescribed Herceptin if your breast cancer over-expresses the HER2 protein, which occurs in 30 percent of breast cancer patients and can signal more aggressive cancers.
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