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New Test to help determine if breast cancer patients are candidates for Herceptin treatment

New genetic test that will help health care professionals determine if women with Breast Cancer are HER2-positive and, therefore, candidates for Herceptin (trastuzumab), a commonly used breast cancer treatment.The test, called Inform Dual ISH, allows for measurement of the number of copies of the HER2 gene in tumor tissue. The HER2 gene is located on chromosome 17 in human cells. An excessive



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