Studies have shown that Asian American women may be prone to a more aggressive type of breast cancer, caused by the HER2/neu ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD If you have HER2-positive breast cancer, your options for treatment will depend on ...

HER2-positive breast cancer HER2 is a protein that helps control the growth of healthy breast cells. HER2/neu is a gene that acts like an on/off switch to make HER2. About 1 out of every 5 cases of ...

But because her tumor expressed high levels of Her2/neu, it was less responsive to tamoxifen, and after the five years were up, she was faced with a dilemma. "I started thinking, what do I want to do?

The HER2/neu-trastuzumab (Herceptin) biomarker stories are a dream to attain as a biomarker that relates symptoms to mechanism, and for most diseases they will remain a dream because such easy ...

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 ...

and the HER2/neu marker. These triple negative breast tumours are more aggressive and result in higher breast cancer mortality rates. Explanations for the delayed presentation among women in Ghana ...

a FDA = Food and Drug Administration; CYP2C9 = cytochrome P-450 isoenzyme 2C9; VKORC1 = vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1; UGT1A1 = uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 ...

Studies have shown that Asian American women may be prone to a more aggressive type of breast cancer, caused by the HER2/neu protein, than women from other racial groups. AAPI women collectively ...

Studies have shown that Asian American women may be prone to a more aggressive type of breast cancer, caused by the HER2/neu protein, than women from other racial groups. Asian American and ...