If you’re a woman with HER2 positive breast cancer, stand up right now and cheer: Tykerb, a new drug approved this week by the FDA, has just doubled the arsenal of effective treatments.
Up till now, Herceptin has been the only somewhat effective treatment for HER-2 positive cancer, which affects one-third of women with invasive breast cancer.
Unfortunately, Herceptin doesn’t work for all women, and it also tends to lose its effectiveness over time. In addition, it’s been shown to cause
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Q. I’ve been diagnosed with HER2-positive stage II breast cancer, and after surgery will be doing chemo (AC + T). After that’s done, my... Read more »
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Sometimes, things do not go as we like and breast cancer returns in a different site from the breast - a metastatic site. It's what... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
SPoT-Light HER2 CISH, which stands for Subtraction Probe Technology Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, is a test used to determine whether breast... Read more »
Background Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a relatively rare type of breast cancer grows in the lymph vessels of the skin of the breast. Because... Read more »
Many survivors of breast cancer report having decreased sexual desire and drive. There are often several possible causes of diminished sex drive in... Read more »
Since its release in 1998, the breast cancer stamp has raised over $50 million for breast cancer research. Perhaps one of the reasons the breast... Read more »
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