Treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin) boosts risk of heart failure or cardiomyopathy in breast cancer survivors, an observational study affirmed.
Women who received trastuzumab alone were 4.12 times more likely (95% CI 2.30 to 7.42) to go into heart failure after accounting for other factors, Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH, of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues found.
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