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Bill · 04-19-2008, 06:16 PM

Initially, Nikki was on the clinical trial/study of Taxol and Tykerb(Lapatinib) and Herceptin at the same time. I'm not an expert, but I think the Tykerb is one of two chemo. drugs that can cross the blood/brain barrier to help out there, and Herceptin stifles the over-expression of the Her2 gene, so they play two different roles and work well together. Does that sound right? What's the other drug that crosses the blood/brain barrier?

04-19-2008, 06:16 PM	#2
Bill Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,077	Initially, Nikki was on the clinical trial/study of Taxol and Tykerb(Lapatinib) and Herceptin at the same time. I'm not an expert, but I think the Tykerb is one of two chemo. drugs that can cross the blood/brain barrier to help out there, and Herceptin stifles the over-expression of the Her2 gene, so they play two different roles and work well together. Does that sound right? What's the other drug that crosses the blood/brain barrier? Last edited by Bill; 04-20-2008 at 04:08 PM.. Reason: bad spelling and added a question