Nancy U. Lin, MD, on Metastatic Breast Cancer: Tucatinib, Trastuzumab, and Capecitabine
ASCO20 Virtual Scientific ProgramNancy U. Lin, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the HER2CLIMB study of patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer that had metastasized to the brain. Adding tucatinib to trastuzumab and capecitabine doubled the intracranial response rate and reduced the risk of death by nearly half, compared with trastuzumab plus capecitabine (Abstract 1005).
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