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Trastuzumab Improves Overall, Disease-Free Survival of HER2-Positive Gastric Cancers
Trastuzumab Improves Overall, Disease-Free Survival of HER2-Positive Gastric Cancers
N Osterweil
20090504
2009 Jun 4
Elsevier Global Medical News
Trastuzumab Improves Overall, Disease-Free Survival of HER2-Positive Gastric Cancers
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2009 Jun 4, N Osterweil
ORLANDO (EGMN) - Trastuzumab may be able to do for gastric cancer what it has already done for breast cancer: provide a significant survival advantage for patients whose tumors carry the HER2 receptor, investigators reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.In a randomized phase III trial involving nearly 4,000 patients with advanced gastric cancers, 22.1% were found to have tumors that expressed the HER2 receptor at high levels. In these patients, introducing trastuzumab...