Women with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer lived significantly longer with adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1, Kadcyla), according to long-term follow-up of a large clinical trial.

T–DM1 contains an agent derived from maytansine that is 100-fold to 10,000-fold more potent than standard chemotherapeutic agents. “Maytansine was tested as a monotherapy in the 1970s, but it ...

In this randomized controlled trial, adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) reduced invasive disease events in patients with ...

Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature Communications, “Analysis of human urinary extracellular ...