Research progress on the efficacy of tucatinib/tucatinib combined with trastuzumab

The efficacy of tucatinib/tucatinib(Tucatinib) combined with trastuzumab has been an important research direction in the field of HER2-positive tumor treatment in recent years. Since the HER2 signaling pathway plays a key role in the occurrence and development of various solid tumors, single-target inhibition is often difficult to control disease progression in the long term. Therefore, overseas research has gradually turned its attention to multi-drug combination strategies. The combination of tucatinib and trastuzumab is a representative solution based on this scientific logic.

In the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer, tucatinib is usually combined with trastuzumab and capecitabine, and is suitable for patients with advanced or metastatic disease who have progressed after receiving one or more anti-HER2 treatment regimens. Overseas studies generally believe that this combination program not only controls systemic lesions, but also shows certain advantages for patients with brain metastases. This is of great significance for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, because brain metastasis has always been a difficult problem in the treatment of this population.

In the field of colorectal cancer, tucatinib combined with trastuzumab has also attracted widespread attention. For patients with RAS wild-type, HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer, this combination therapy provides a new direction for subsequent treatment after failure of standard chemotherapy regimens. The overseas medical community believes that this combination can help break through the limitations of previous treatment resistance through dual HER2 inhibition mechanisms.

From the overall efficacy evaluation, tucatinib combined with trastuzumab is not a simple additive effect, but forms a synergistic inhibitory effect at the molecular level. The guidelines emphasize that under the premise of strict screening of HER2-positive people, this program can bring more durable disease control to some patients with advanced tumors.

Overall, tucatinib combined with trastuzumab has become one of the representative combination strategies in the HER2 targeted therapy system, and its therapeutic value is being further verified by the international medical community.

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