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Marked Response to Single Agent Trastuzumab in a Patient with Metastatic HER-2 Gene Amplified Rectal Cancer
22 Jun 2011
Abstract excerpt
Overexpression or HER-2 gene amplification occurs in approximately 25% of invasive breast cancers and predicts response to the targeting therapeutic antibody trastuzumab (1). In this report, trastuzumab was used in the treatment of a patient with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring HER-2 gene amplification and overexpression. There was a marked radiographic response to the trastuzumab. If a larger series...
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