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 ...

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 ...

Therapies that specifically target HER2 include Herceptin (trastuzumab), Perjeta (pertuzumab), and T-DM1 (trastuzumab emtansine) which is sold under the brand name Kadcycla. Treatment of early ...

with more than 82,000 people treated to date – – Long-term data also showed continued benefit in invasive disease-free survival for adjuvant Kadcyla compared to Herceptin in this study ...

The current study focused on the biosimilar market for the originator biologic trastuzumab, Roche’s targeted cancer therapy Herceptin, which lost patent exclusivity in June 2019. The first biosimilar, ...

You might have these drugs as part of your treatment for advanced stomach ... The results of the tests show whether a targeted or immunotherapy cancer drug is suitable for you. Trastuzumab has the ...

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 ...