Patients with Stage II and III (early-stage) HER2+ breast cancer usually undergo preoperative therapy with multi-agent chemotherapy in combination with anti-HER2 antibodies, followed by surgery. A less intensive, reduced chemotherapy treatment approach is currently being evaluated in the CompassHER2 pCR trial by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN).
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