Herceptin treatment is big news and there have been many recent press articles on the subject.

This page presents the collected postings about Herceptin treatment from the main Beating Breast Cancer blog site. You'll find a mixture of personal reflections about herceptin treatment and some more medically based commentary about the role of hercetptin in breast cancer treatment

Herceptin - Wonder Drug or Not?
An overview article about the current information available on herceptin and its role in the treatment of breast cancer

New Hercetpin Information
New treatment information from the HERA study - this shows that women treated with Herceptin had their risk of cancer recurrence reduced by about 35% and their risk of death reduced by about the same amount. Heart problems related to herceptin seemed less common in this study than researchers expected

Press Hype about Herceptin
This article reviews whether the press coverage of herceptin is accurate and reliable - no prizes for guessing that it isn't!

Herceptin in the UK
An article reviewing the struggle to have herceptin made available to women in the UK

Herceptin and Tykerb
A review of the role for herceptin and tykerb and for other new breast cancer drugs. Worth a read for the discussion on how to figure out if new breast cancer research information relates to your own case.

Herceptin UK Approval for Early Breast Cancer
At last - and after a huge pressure group campaign

Lymph Nodes and Herceptin
Our experiences of meeting our oncologist in the early stages of planning Marjory's treatment

Chemotherapy and Herceptin
CEF chemo and herceptin combination - new research suggests that this combination works well

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