"Adjuvant" has usually been interpreted to mean a particular treatment added to a basic treatment to boost the effectiveness of the main treatment and they are then given at the same time.
Getting chemotherapy first and then the monoclonal antibody (Herceptin) afterward is a little confusing.... If they are given as a 1, 2 punch with Herceptin right after chemo I don't know if it is considered "late" really or not...
Does "late" Herceptin only apply to those who get it separately after chemo, no matter how late?
In spite of the notion that there are very few who fall into the group of people who were more than a year out from chemo and thus not considered at enough risk (or even worthy enough to bother proving the accuracy of scientific guesses at how ofen they actually do recur eventually) to justify traztuzumab, there seem to be a significant number visiting this site regularly. (I call this group the "Lost Regiment of HER2's", for obvious reasons!)
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