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.
Herceptin (generic name, trastuzumab) is a drug used to treat some women with advanced breast cancer whose cancer has spread to other areas of the body. Approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 1998, Herceptin has shown great promise in increasing patient survival time and reducing the number of deaths from advanced breast cancer.