Ohio State hematologist Dr. Kerry Rogers says chemotherapy and newer targeted drugs both work well, and the right choice depends on the patient.
|Articles|June 5, 2013
From ASCO: Updates on the Afinitor BOLERO-3 study in breast cancer
Author(s)Debu Tripathy
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Debu Tripathy, MD, editor-in-chief of CURE, discusses the BOLERO-3 study, which combines the mTOR inhibitor, everolimus, with Herceptin (trastuzumab) and chemotherapy in patients whose cancers progressed on previous treatment. This study was presented at the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago.
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