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CLEOPATRA: Success With Dual HER2 Blockade in Breast Cancer


 

SAN ANTONIO Dr. Howard A. Burris III, Dr. William J. Gradishar, and Dr. Hope S. Rugo remark on the implications of the CLEOPATRA trial, in which the addition of pertuzumab to a standard chemotherapy combination of trastuzumab and docetaxel led to an additional 6 months of progression-free survival in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, at the 2011 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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