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.
A new study has found that women who wait more than 60 days after surgery to start chemotherapy are more likely to have the cancer come back someplace in the body away from the breast (metastasize) and also are less likely to survive compared to women who start chemotherapy within 30 days of surgery.omen diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer who started Herceptin within 30 days after surgery were 75% more likely to survive than women diagnosed with HER2-positive disease who started Herceptin 61 or more days after surgery.