Breast cancer battleground drug not a game-changer when given for a year

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Breast cancer battleground drug not a game-changer when given for a year

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New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa

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A small proportion of patients do better with the longer course of Herceptin, but there are disadvantages
US oncologists are reporting a trial of the breast cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) has failed to demonstrate one year is significantly better than