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Table 1 Characteristics of 103 women with HER2/neu-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer

From: Clinical utility of serum HER2/neu in monitoring and prediction of progression-free survival in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab-based therapies

Patient characteristic

n

%

HER2/neu overexpressiona

  

Score 2+

31

30.1

Score 3+

72

69.9

Treatment

  

Single-agent trastuzumab

13

12.6

Trastuzumab + taxane

52

50.5

Trastuzumab + vinorelbine

11

10.7

Trastuzumab + taxane + megestrol acetate

6

5.8

Trastuzumab + taxane + tamoxifen

5

4.8

Trastuzumab + bevacizumab

5

4.8

Trastuzumab + taxane + carboplatin

4

3.9

Trastuzumab + taxane + CMF

3

2.9

Trastuzumab + erlotinib

2

1.9

Trastuzumab + doxorubicin + cyclophosphamide

2

1.9

  1. aScores indicating HER2/neu overexpression as determined immunohistochemically using the Dako Herceptest. CMF, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil; HER, human-epidermal-growth-factor receptor.