therapy and/or chemo. You might also take Herceptin together with other HER2 targeted medicines such as Perjeta (pertuzumab). It’s more likely that you’ll take Herceptin for an early stage ...

One example is the breast cancer medication trastuzumab (Herceptin). A protein on the ... This type of targeted therapy works to change the proteins that control the way the instructions of ...

“With these new data, Kadcyla is the first targeted therapy to demonstrate ... the efficacy and safety of Kadcyla versus Herceptin as an adjuvant therapy in people with HER2-positive early ...

(Note, however, that some HER2-negative tumors have responded to Herceptin, which is the treatment used for HER2-positive tumors.) Prior to the development of targeted therapies for HER2-positive ...

Targeted cancer therapy uses medications and other substances to find and attack cancer cells. Doctors may recommend different types of targeted cancer therapy for various diseases. These ...

Kadcyla is a HER2-targeted drug that is made up of two drugs ... a chemotherapy drug) before Perjeta plus Herceptin maintenance therapy after chemotherapy was discontinued. Kadcyla was used as ...

A clinical trial at MSK found that music therapy for cancer-related anxiety is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy and produces long-lasting benefits. Dr. Kevin Liou presented the results of ...

Targeted therapy has significantly improved the survival rate for people with HER2-positive breast cancer. In clinical trials, the drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) combined with chemotherapy improved ...