Trastuzumab Link to Heart Failure Seen

Treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin) boosts risk of heart failure or cardiomyopathy in breast cancer survivors, an observational study affirmed.

Women who received trastuzumab alone were 4.12 times more likely (95% CI 2.30 to 7.42) to go into heart failure after accounting for other factors, Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH, of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues found.

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Source: MedPage Today