What is childhood apraxia of speech? Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a speech disorder in which a childâs brain has difficulty coordinating the complex oral movements needed to create sounds into syllables, syllables into words, and words into phrases. Typically, muscle weakness is not to blame for this speech disorder.
Related to Breast Cancer. Herceptin: Long-Term Benefits for Breast Cancer. Feb. 24, 2011 -- High-risk breast cancer patients continue to derive benefits from the drug Herceptin even four years after stopping treatment, but questions remain about the biologic therapyâs safety when given with chemotherapy.
email. MNT featured. Patients in early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer should remain on Herceptin (trastuzumab) treatment for one year, and not two years or six months, according to a final analysis of the Phase III HERA trial, pharmaceutical company Roche and the Breast International Group announced today.n the USA, Herceptin is manufacture and sold by Genentech, by Chugai in Japan, and by Roche in the rest of the world. A full one-year course of Herceptin treatment costs about $70,000. According to various media sources, Genentech has never explained why the drug is so expensive.