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One way doctors judge the effectiveness of treatment given before surgery (neoadjuvant treatment) is to look at the tissue removed during surgery to see if any active cancer cells are present. If no active cancer cells are present, doctors call it a “pathologic complete response.” Doctors have wondered if a pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant treatment is linked to better outcomes for early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer. The latest results from the NeoALLTO trail suggest that pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant Herceptin and Tykerb for early-stage, HER2-positive, hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer is linked to better outcomes. goo.gl/6HxekN
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:09:14 +0000

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