The two other trials examined Herceptin given simultaneously with chemotherapy. They showed 14.7 per cent of women who received the drug had experienced a recurrence of their disease within four ...

Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Procter M, Leyland-Jones B, et al. Trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-positive breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2005;353:1659-72. Background: HER2 (human epidermal growth ...

RAHWAY, N.J., September 14, 2024--KEYTRUDA plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy OS results as first-line treatment in patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma.

Guiding chemotherapy to a tumour by attaching it to the antibody-based target drug Herceptin (trastuzumab) is effective at treating women with breast cancer who have no other treatment options, a new ...

* THIS STUDY randomly assigned 3,387 women with HER2-positive breast cancer who had completed surgery and chemotherapy to receive trastuzumab (Herceptin) intravenously every three weeks or to ...

Researchers in Britain gave Herceptin to 1,703 breast cancer patients for one year after surgery and chemotherapy. Another 1,698 women did not receive the drug.

pCR of 60.7 per cent for three-weekly anthracycline-based chemotherapy, followed by Perjeta, Herceptin and taxane-chemotherapy No new or unexpected cardiac AEs, or other AEs, were observed in ...

The risk of death was reduced by 34 per cent for people on the PERJETA arm of the study, compared to those who received HERCEPTIN and docetaxel chemotherapy alone (HR=0.66; p=0.0008).

Herceptin is part of a new generation of biotechnology drugs revolutionizing cancer care. Unlike chemotherapy, which attacks healthy tissue, Herceptin targets cancer cells.

After ten years, the risk of death was reduced by 17% for people treated with Perjeta ® (pertuzumab), Herceptin ® (trastuzumab) and chemotherapy (the Perjeta-based regimen) for a ...

In Manitoba and some other parts of Canada, for example, Herceptin is combined with doxorubicin chemotherapy, also known by the trade name Adriamycin. It, too, has been linked to heart damage in ...