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.
Half received chemotherapy, and the other half received chemotherapy plus one year of treatment with Herceptin. The follow-up was for a median of 8.4 years. The researchers found that adding Herceptin improved overall survival by 37 percent. The addition of Herceptin also boosted disease-free survival by 40 percent, according to the study.