Addition of Tastuzumab to Chemotherapy for Stomach CancerExtends Survival by Nearly Three Months, but Is It Cost Effective? (ToGA study)
An Article published Online First by The Lancet says that for patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer, addition of tastuzumab to standard cisplatinum/fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy results in a median survival of 13.8 months, compared with 11.1 months with chemotherapy alone. This corresponds to a 26% reduction in the death rate for patients in the trastuzumab group. Thus trastuzumab combined with standard chemotherapy could be considered a new standard option for patients with this condition. However, an accompanying Comment questions the cost effectiveness of the treatment.
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