Treatment of Heavily Pre-treated Metastatic Breast Cancer with Eribulin: First local experience in Sabah

Med J Malaysia. 2016 Dec;71(6):348-350.

Abstract

There are many options in the treatment of heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancer however none of the therapeutic agents have shown promising improvement of survival with good toxicity profile. Eribulin is a novel nontaxane microtubule dynamics inhibitor. Two recent clinical trial showed that Eribulin improves progression-free and overall survival in this subset of patients. We report our experience with using Eribulin in five patients with metastatic breast cancer either in second or third-line setting, in our centre.

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Female
  • Furans / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Ketones / therapeutic use*
  • Malaysia
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Furans
  • Ketones
  • eribulin