Accurate identification of HER2-positive patients is essential for superior outcomes with trastuzumab therapy

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-272

  Chorn, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRASTUZUMAB;

BREAST TUMOR; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, ERBB-2; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646375695     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.265-272     Document Type: Review

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