Do you give trastuzumab to women with small, lymph node negative, HER2-positive breast cancer?
Are there any clinical or pathologic factors that lean you towards or away from giving trastuzumab?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Size, hormone receptor status, age, cardiac risk factors and patient opinion matter.HER2 itself is only a moderately strong poor prognostic factor; histologic grade, size, and nodal status carry greater prognostic information. Most T1, N0, HER+ breast cancers, particularly ER+, cancers, had an excel...