You also can use them along with chemo or other treatments. Herceptin (trastuzumab) is one of these targeted medicines for breast cancer. It works against a protein called HER2 (also sometimes ...

And do not stop Herceptin treatment unless your doctor recommends ... The absence of warnings or other information for a given drug does not indicate that the drug or drug combination is safe ...

Why is Herceptin not yet funded in NZ ... The committees do not make funding decisions (the PHARMAC Board does). What issues were raised by PTAC? PTAC found insufficient certainty in the evidence ...

The Court of Appeal has decided that a breast cancer patient should receive the drug Herceptin after a long-running legal fight. The decision could have widespread implications for other cancer ...