Skin/nail infections with the addition of pertuzumab to trastuzumab-based chemotherapy

We report a series of breast cancer patients with invasive skin and nail infections with Staphylococcus species that we attribute to the addition of pertuzumab to trastuzumab-based therapy. With the suspicion of an increased incidence of cutaneous infection in patients treated with pertuzumab and tr...

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Main Authors: Mortimer, Joanne, Jung, Jae, Yuan, Yuan, Kruper, Laura, Stewart, Daphne, Chung, Samuel, Yu, Kim Wai, Mendelsohn, Mary, D’Apuzzo, Massimo, Tegtmeier, Bernard, Dadwal, Sanjeet
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243002/