New monoclonal antibody therapies offer significant survival advantage for breast cancer patients
5th Nov 2005, 04:11 GMT
Results from the first and only interim analysis of an important trial assessing the potential of Herceptin (trastuzumab) to improve disease-free survival (DFS) in HER-2 positive breast cancer patients after adjuvant chemotherapy, have shown that Herceptin affords a significant survival advantage... click link for more info.
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