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Intrathecal trastuzumab: immunotherapy improves the prognosis of leptomeningeal metastases in HER-2+ breast cancer patient

Overview of attention for article published in Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, September 2015
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Title
Intrathecal trastuzumab: immunotherapy improves the prognosis of leptomeningeal metastases in HER-2+ breast cancer patient
Published in
Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/s40425-015-0084-y
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Authors

Nu T. Lu, Jeffrey Raizer, Erwin P. Gabor, Natalie M. Liu, James Q. Vu, Dennis J. Slamon, John L. Barstis

Abstract

We describe the clinical and therapeutic course of a 51-year-old woman with HER-2+ breast cancer who developed leptomeningeal (LM) and spinal cord metastases after 8 years of stable disease on combination therapy with intravenous (IV) trastuzumab. Due to progressive CNS disease, intrathecal (IT) trastuzumab was introduced to enhance HER-2+ therapy into the CSF space. A combination HER-2+ targeted approach achieved clinical remission with stable disease in our patient 46 months after she was diagnosed with LM metastases. However, spinal cord C-1 metastasis was not fully controlled with IT trastuzumab, ultimately leading to the patient's respiratory compromise. In our patient, IT trastuzumab immunotherapy improved prognosis and was an effective strategy to manage HER-2+ LM disease. Given alone or alongside other anti-HER-2+ therapeutics with sufficient CNS penetration, IT trastuzumab could extend the lifespan of patients with leptomeningeal and CNS metastases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Egypt 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 23%
Researcher 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Other 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 7 18%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 33%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 8%
Psychology 3 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 10 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 October 2015.
All research outputs
#14,256,180
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer
#2,245
of 3,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#125,085
of 281,201 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer
#7
of 13 outputs
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