Patient takes her fight for trastuzumab to the High Court
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High-dose intrathecal trastuzumab for leptomeningeal metastases secondary to HER-2 overexpressing breast cancer.
We are facing an increasing incidence of brain and leptomeningeal metastases (LM) during the history of patients with HER-2-overexpressing breast cancer. This clinical issue is due to the neurotropism of HER-2-overexpressing breast cancer cells, combined with the high antitumoral activity of systemic administrations of trastuzumab but without preventive effect in the brain and leptomeninges. In...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7537.320-a