Open AccessHER2-positive breast cancer patients receiving trastuzumab treatment obtain prognosis comparable with that of HER2-negative breast cancer patients
Author(s) -
Tao Qin,
Zhongyu Yuan,
Roujun Peng,
Bing Bai,
Yanxia Shi,
Xiaoyu Teng,
Donggeng Liu,
Shusen Wang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
oncotargets and therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.054
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1178-6930
DOI - 10.2147/ott.s40851
Subject(s) - trastuzumab , medicine , breast cancer , oncology , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , adjuvant , cancer , confidence interval
The efficacy of trastuzumab in Chinese breast cancer (BC) patients has rarely been reported. This study was designed to compare the clinical outcomes of HER2-positive BC patients receiving or not receiving trastuzumab treatment and HER2-negative BC patients.