Regulatory approval

Published by the European Medicines Agency. Approved

Herceptin is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) as monotherapy for the treatment of those patients who have received at least two chemotherapy regimens for their metastatic disease. Prior chemotherapy must have included at least an anthracycline and a taxane unless patients are unsuitable for these treatments. Hormone receptor positive patients must also have failed hormonal therapy, unless patients are unsuitable for these treatments.

This is written in the approval document.

Citation

Roche Registration GmbH. Herceptin (trastuzumab) [product information]. European Medicines Agency website. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/product-information/herceptin-epar-product-information_en.pdf. Revised March 2023. Accessed March 12, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organizations	Biomarkers	Cancer types	Therapies
EMA (1)	HER2-positive	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Trastuzumab
EMA (1)	ERBB2 amplification	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Trastuzumab