Current best practices and rationalistic perspectives in causation-based prevention, early detection and multidisciplinary treatment of breast and gastric cancer


Gastric & Breast Cancer e-journal
DOI: 10.2122/gbc.2006.0043

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Antharacyclin-based chemotherapy benefits breast cancer patients with HER2 amplified or overexpressed tumours: new trial adds on evidence towards individualized therapy.
Evangelos Briasoulis, Dimosthenis Ziogas, Michael Fatouros, Dimitrios H. Roukos and Angelos M. Kappas
Since this article has no abstract we provide the first paragraph.
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2 or erbB2) is an established molecular marker of prognosis and responsiveness to breast cancer therapy. Randomized evidence suggests that breast cancer patients with HER2 amplified or overexpressed can benefit from trastuzumab therapy [1-5]

 

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