“With antibody drug conjugates, generally speaking is that you can deliver a much higher dose of drug to the tumor than you normally would be able to. The hope is that if you can deliver the drug to the tumor that you can kill more cancer cells.” – Linda Vahdat, M.D.
Linda Vahdat, MD, professor of Medicine, director of the Breast Cancer Research Program, chief of the Solid Tumor Service, Weill Cornell Medical, discusses the antibody drug conjugate glembatumumab vedotin being used in the treatment of women with triple negative breast cancer who have a high expression of gpNMB. Vahdat says the purpose of the drug conjugate is to target gpNMB, also known as osteoactivan, which is important for cell migration and invasion.
Vahdat says the hope among oncologists for glembatumumab vedotin is that the treatment can deliver a much higher dose of drug to the tumor than you normally would be able to, and directly into the tumor cell.
