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Case Reports
Prolonged trastuzumab therapy in a patient with recurrent breast cancer and anthracycline-induced cardiac failure.
- Nawaz Walji, Lubna Bhatt, Sindy Dhallu, and Indrajit N Fernando.
- The Cancer Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Vincent Drive, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK. nawaz.walji@uhb.nhs.uk
- Breast. 2008 Aug 1; 17 (4): 423-5.
AbstractCurrent practice precludes patients with pre-existing cardiac dysfunction from trastuzumab therapy. A 57-year-old patient with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer and anthracycline-induced cardiac failure was safely treated with trastuzumab. At 46 months, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) did fall to 38.3%, but 8 months later has recovered to 47%. She remains disease free and asymptomatic from cardiac dysfunction more than 6 years following breast cancer recurrence. We review the evidence for the use of trastuzumab in patients with controlled cardiac dysfunction, and suggest this group of patients should be considered for treatment with trastuzumab if no other or only less efficacious therapeutic options are available.
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