Breast Cancer & Trastuzumab

Connection: Trastuzumab & Breast Cancer»

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) and Early Breast Canc - National Cancer Institute
After a median of one year of follow-up, patients who took trastuzumab for a year had a 46 percent reduction in the risk of breast cancer recurrence ...

NICE Issues Draft Guidance On Trastuzumab (Herceptin) For Early Breast Cancer
7. NICE understands that the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is also issuing guidance to Scotland on the use of trastuzumab in early breast ...

Tips from Other Journals - October 15, 2001 - American Academy of Family Physicians
In about one third of breast cancers, the human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2) gene is overexpressed, which encodes the growth factor ...

Breast Cancer (Print Version)
Adjuvant Systemic Therapy for Hormone-Responsive Early Stage Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women (UpToDate) - ...

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Wikipedia: Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that acts on the HER2/neu receptor. Herceptins principal use is as an anti-cancer therapy in breast cancer in patients whose tumors overexpress this receptor. Trastuzumab is administered either once a ... Read More

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