Trastuzumab Emtansine for Residual Invasive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

2018 New England Journal of Medicine 2,430 citations

Abstract

Among patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who had residual invasive disease after completion of neoadjuvant therapy, the risk of recurrence of invasive breast cancer or death was 50% lower with adjuvant T-DM1 than with trastuzumab alone. (Funded by F. Hoffmann-La Roche/Genentech; KATHERINE ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01772472 .).

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Trastuzumab emtansineTrastuzumabMedicineAntibody-drug conjugateOncologyBreast cancerChemotherapyMetastatic breast cancerInternal medicineCancerAntibodyMonoclonal antibodyImmunology

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Year
2018
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Volume
380
Issue
7
Pages
617-628
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Gϋnter von Minckwitz, Chiun‐Sheng Huang, Max S. Mano et al. (2018). Trastuzumab Emtansine for Residual Invasive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine , 380 (7) , 617-628. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1814017

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10.1056/nejmoa1814017