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Effective Treatment of Solitary Pituitary Metastasis with Panhypopituitarism in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer by Lapatinib

Authors
 Youngmok Park  ;  Hyemin Kim  ;  Eui-Hyun Kim  ;  Chang-Ok Suh  ;  Soohyeon Lee 
Citation
 CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, Vol.48(1) : 403-408, 2016 
Journal Title
CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
ISSN
 1598-2998 
Issue Date
2016
Keywords
Breast neoplasms ; HER2 ; Hypopituitarism ; Neoplasm metastasis
Abstract
Brain metastasis affects one third of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer after treatment with trastuzumab. Surgical resection and radiation therapy are often unsuccessful at accomplishing complete control of metastasis. Lapatinib is presumed to cross the blood-brain barrier, and exhibits clinical activities for treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer. A 43-year-old woman was treated for early breast carcinoma with total mastectomy, axillary lymph-node dissection, and adjuvant chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide plus doxorubicin. After the end of adjuvant trastuzumab therapy, she was diagnosed with panhypopituitarism due to pituitary metastasis. Surgical removal and whole brain radiation therapy were performed, but a portion of viable tumor remained. Only taking lapatinib, the size of the metastatic lesion began to shrink. Trastuzumab may have controlled the micro-metastasis of breast cancer, but it was unable to control its progression to the central nervous system. Lapatinib is a possible option for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients with brain metastasis.
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DOI
10.4143/crt.2014.165
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Internal Medicine (내과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Neurosurgery (신경외과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Pathology (병리학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Radiation Oncology (방사선종양학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Eui Hyun(김의현) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-7122
Kim, Hye Min(김혜민) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2899-9480
Suh, Chang Ok(서창옥)
Lee, Soo Hyeon(이수현)
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/146381
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