The present invention discloses that prior art protocols that administer
HER receptor blockers concurrently with phase specific cytotoxic
chemotherapeutics result in antagonistic function that prevents
subsequent administrations of phase specific cytotoxic from functioning.
The present invention provides protocols that allow the two classes of
drugs to function synergistically. Moreover, the present invention also
identifies that gompertzian tumor growth results in heterogeneity of cell
cycle times in a tumor and that chemotherapeutic depopulation of the
tumor results in accelerating cell cycle times, both of which preclude
synchronicity of successive administrations of S-Phase cytotoxics
relative to the progression of the S-Phase in the cancer cell population
under prior art protocols. Present invention provides novel "synchronous"
protocols for S-Phase cytotoxics, using HER blockers, to overcome this
problem. Present invention also discloses how to integrate protocols of
U.S. Pat. No. 6,486,146 for HER+ cancers that are also endocrine
dependent.