For about 20 percent of patients with advanced gastric cancer, tumors overproduce a receptor protein called HER2.
ILLUSTRATION BY ERIN MOORE
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN “GUT REACTION,” CURE WINTER 2009
*HER2 is also associated with breast cancer.
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