Long-Term Data Confirm TH Benefit in Early HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

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This video highlights 7-year follow-up data from the APT trial, which studied adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab for node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer.

In this video, Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, discusses 7-year follow-up data of the APT trial, which studied adjuvant paclitaxel/trastuzumab (TH) in early-stage patients with node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer.

Tolaney presented the study results (abstract 511) at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2–6 in Chicago.

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