Does the addition of trastuzumab to ACP adjuvant therapy increase the late development of CHF in patients with node-positive, HER2-positive breast cancer?
The addition of trastuzumab to ACP chemotherapy has a favorable risk-benefit profile, with late development of CHF being uncommon at 7-year follow-up.
The late development of CHF after the addition of trastuzumab to paclitaxel after doxorubicin/ cyclophosphamide chemotherapy is uncommon. The risk versus benefit of trastuzumab as given in this regimen remains strongly in favor of trastuzumab.
Romond et al. (Tue,) studied this question.