|Articles|January 8, 2015

A Relatively Safe Breast Cancer Combination Therapy Proves Effective

The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found nearly 100% survival with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab.

Patients with small, node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancers had a 3-year survival approaching 100% with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab (Herceptin), a multicenter, prospective trial showed.

The 406 patients included in the study had 3-year invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) of 98.7%. After excluding contralateral HER2-negative recurrences and nonbreast cancers, investigators identified seven disease-specific recurrences.

Safety results were generally good, as relatively few patients had grade 3 peripheral neuropathy, heart failure, or asymptomatic declines in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), as reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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