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.
Recently I was informed Herceptin is being studied. The length of time and the cost of this treatment are under fire. The pharmaceutical company insist it is right for Herceptin to be taken for a year no more or no less, but at the cost of just over Â£40â000 to the NHS per person means it is being investigated.HER2 is amplified in 20% of breast cancers cases.amoxifen costing less than Â£800 over five years starves cancer cells of oestrogen, whereas Herceptin binds the cancerous cells preventing the erratic growth. I will have eighteen Herceptin treatments at a cost of around Â£3000 each. You can see why the NHS has started a yearlong study on Herceptin and its benefits.