Alessandro Ottaiano, Stefania Scala, Nicola Normanno, Maria Napolitano, Monica Capozzi, Anna Maria Rachiglio, Cristin Roma, Anna Maria Trotta, Crescenzo D'Alterio, Luigi Portella, Carmela Romano, Antonino Cassata, Rossana Casaretti, Lucrezia Silvestro, Anna Nappi, Salvatore Tafuto, Antonio Avallone, Alfonso De Stefano, Mario Tamburini, Carmine Picone, Antonella Petrillo, Francesco Izzo, Raffaele Palaia, Vittorio Albino, Alfonso Amore, Andrea Belli, Ugo Pace, Massimiliano Di Marzo, Paolo Chiodini, Gerardo Botti, Gianfranco De Feo, Paolo Delrio, Guglielmo Nasti
BACKGROUND: Combination of chemotherapies (fluoropirimidines, oxaliplatin and irinotecan) with biologic drugs (bevacizumab, panitumumab, cetuximab) have improved clinical responses and survival of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). However, patients' selection thorough the identification of predictive factors still represent a challange. Cetuximab (Erbitux®), a chimeric monoclonal antibody binding to the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), belongs to the Immunoglobulins (Ig) grade 1 subclass able to elicite both in vitro and in vivo the Antibody-Dependent Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity (ADCC)...
September 9, 2019: BMC Cancer