Dennis Slamon, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles It may be reasonable to replace the anthracycline component of adjuvant chemotherapy with carboplatin in HER-2 positive patients with early breast c
Dennis Slamon, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles
It may be reasonable to replace the anthracycline component of adjuvant chemotherapy with carboplatin in HER-2 positive patients with early breast cancer – provided agents such as docetaxel and trastuzumab are also included, according to the findings of the BCIRG 006 trial reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
COMMENT: Norman Wolmark, NSABP foundation, Pittsburg
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