As Breast Cancer Treatments Continue to Evolve, a Few Stand Out
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Mar 09, 2023
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in American women and the most common cancer globally. Estimates show that more than 300,000 people in the U.S. are expected to be diagnosed this year alone, almost 3,000 of them men.
When the FDA first approved Genentech, Inc.’s Herceptin (trastuzumab) on Sept. 25, 1998, for the treatment of people with breast cancer whose tumors overexpress the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) protein, the drug offered a new targeted approach to treating the disease. In the years since, researchers have identified other subtypes of the cancer and developed newer agents indicated for specific types and stages of the disease.
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