The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a 420 mg dosage strength of Hercessi (trastuzumab-strf), a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab). Hercessi, a HER2/neu receptor antagonist, is ...
What Is HER2-Positive Breast Cancer? HER2-positive breast cancer is when breast cancer cells have a protein receptor called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Normally, this protein ...
Included studies compared survival between Black and White female patients with breast cancer within subtypes defined by hormone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)/neu (HER2; ...
Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in women in the United States, accounting for about one in three new female cancers each ye | Cancer ...
Background: Variable rates of HER2 protein overexpression and gene amplification have been reported in advanced ovarian cancers (AOC). Trastuzumab, tested only as a single agent, has been shown to ...
Groups Develop Request for Proposals for Research Grants Focused on Lung Cancers Harboring HER2 Mutations and/or Other HER2 Alterations NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lung Cancer ...
The potential to treat GEA by targeting HER2 was confirmed in 2010 when researchers showed that adding Roche’s Herceptin to chemotherapy extended OS from 11.1 months to 13.8 months.