Breast tumor
Jan 6 2007, Anupam Agnihotri

If women with a certain type of breast cancer are given drug Herceptin along with using standard chemotherapy then their chances of survival are comparatively higher. This belief has been expounded through an article published in the issue of The Lancet..

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