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Louis Fehrenbacher, MD, on Invasive Breast Cancer: Results From the NSABP B-47 Trial

2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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Louis Fehrenbacher, MD, of Kaiser Permanente, discusses study findings comparing adjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by weekly paclitaxel—or docetaxel and cyclophosphamide—with or without a year of trastuzumab in women with node-positive or high-risk node-negative disease (Abstract GS1-02).



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