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How HER2 Targeted Therapies Fight HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

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Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH

HER2-targeted therapies improve outcomes by shutting down growth signaling to cancer cells, targeted delivery of chemotherapy, or blocking intracellular signaling - all leveraging the HER2 receptor to better control metastatic breast cancer.

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