JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A marker of immune function that predicts for better outcomes in patients treated with chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer is also linked to improved prognosis in patients treated with chemotherapy for HER2-positive breast cancer. But that marker — the quantity of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (S-TILs) in a biopsy — appears irrelevant when trastuzumab is used. http://youtu.be/iApOV4e0BfI
Years After Treatment for HER2-Positive Early Stage Breast Cancer Trastuzumab Shows Life-Altering Benefit JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — After following breast cancer patients for an average of eight-plus years, researchers say that adding trastuzumab (Herceptin) to chemotherapy significantly improved the overall and disease-free survival of women with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer. They found that the use of trastuzumab produced a 37 percent improvement in survival and a 40 percent reduction in risk of cancer occurrence, compared to patients treated with chemotherapy alone. These findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, demonstrate how important trastuzumab has been to the treatment of this form of breast cancer, says the study’s lead author, Edith A. Perez, M.D., deputy director at large, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and director of the Breast Cancer Translational Genomics Program at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Flórida 30 de setembro de 2014 — Análises em mais de 8 mil mulheres, que participaram do maior estudo mundial de dois medicamentos para o câncer de mama HER2-positivo, reforçam outras descobertas de estudos clínicos mostrando que o trastuzumabe (Herceptin) deve permanecer como o padrão de tratamento desse tipo de câncer, diz uma pesquisadora da Clínica Mayo.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, 30 de septiembre 2014 — Investigaciones en más de 8.000 mujeres, que participaron en el estudio más grande del mundo de dos tratamientos para el cáncer de mama HER2-positivo, refuerzan otros hallazgos de este ensayo clínico que demuestran que el fármaco trastuzumab (Herceptin) debiera seguir siendo el tratamiento estándar en este tipo de cáncer, expresa una investigadora de la Clínica Mayo.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 29, 2014 — Analysis of more than 8,000 women who participated in the world’s largest study of two treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer reinforces other findings from the clinical trial showing that trastuzumab (Herceptin) should remain the standard of care for this cancer, says a Mayo Clinic researcher. http://youtu.be/BcFszcq4CJo
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