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De-escalating breast cancer therapy; can some patients be spared chemotherapy?

June 25, 2019 Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Clinical Trials, HER2 gene, lapatinib, PI3K pathway, Research, trastuzumab

About one of every five breast cancers presents with high levels of HER2 proteins. Known as HER2-positive breast cancer, these tumors typically show an aggressive

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A new HER2 mutation leads to a clinical trial and to a promising diagnostic tool for metastatic breast cancer

July 27, 2017 circulating tumor DNA, clinical trial, HER2 gene, Metastatic breast cancer, neratinib

There is a group of metastatic breast cancers that has the HER2 gene amplified – the cells have many copies of it – which leads

From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma