HER2-positive breast cancer accounts for 20–30% of all breast cancers and has the second-poorest prognosis among breast cancer subtypes. The approval of trastuzumab in 1998 has significantly improved ...

Trastuzumab, tested only as a single agent, has been shown to achieve 7% response in heavily pretreated patients with AOC with 3+ and 2+ HER2 immunostaining by immunohistochemistry (IHC).