Trop-2 as a Therapeutic Target in Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT: The emergence of Trop-2 as a therapeutic target has given rise to new treatment paradigms for the treatment of patients with advanced and metastatic breast cancer. Trop-2 is most highly expressed in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), but the receptor is found across all breast cancer subtypes. With sacituzumab govitecan, the first FDA-approved, Trop-2 inhibitor, providing a survival benefit in patients with both metastatic TNBC and hormone receptor positive breast cancer, additional Trop-2 directed therapies are under investigation. Ongoing studies of combination regimens with immunotherapy, PARP inhibitors, and other targeted agents aim to further harness the effect of Trop-2 inhibition. Current investigations are also underway in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting to evaluate the th

SUBMITTER: Sakach E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9735829 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature