Data presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium show that basically all women with HER2+ breast cancers benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy/Herceptin due to their worse prognosis. In my mind, however, there is no more controversial area in breast cancer than in which patients truly benefit from receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, among women who are (1) postmenopausal and (2) have small, low grade, node negative, ER+ and Her2- breast cancers which generally have a high cure rate, made...
