Unfortunately, many individuals with HER2 positive breast cancer are likely to experience disease recurrence.
Trastuzumab is an effective agent in this setting; however, many patients have tumours that show resistance to trastuzumab, according to Amir Sonnenblick, Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Institute Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium.
Prof Sonnenblick presented findings from a study of specific molecules expressed on some tumours that may confer resistance to trastuzumab at the IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference held 7-9 May 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Source: ESMO
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