Evolving Treatment Strategies in Early HER2+ Breast Cancer

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Experts discuss how, nearly half of patients diagnoses with HER-2 positive metastatic brain cancer do develop brain metastasis. It is thought that larger molecule treatments such as the monoclonal antibodies likely do not cross an intact blood brain barrier which is often why patients develop brain metastases

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