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Blog 10 Extra Credit: 1980s AIDS Epidemic
My mom is a ER doctor, and she is old enough to have practiced during the HIV/AIDs epidemic of the 1980s. Since I was not alive at the time, it is impossible for me to understand what it was like, and I can only imagine how confusing and scary it would be to see this…
Blog 10: Herceptin
According to Genentech’s website, Herceptin (Trastuzumab) is a monoclonal antibody drug approved for the treatment of “early-stage breast cancer that is Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor-positive (HER2+),” “HER2+ metastatic breast cancer,” and “HER2+ metastatic cancer of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction” (in certain cases). Monoclonal antibodies are “laboratory-produced molecules engineered to serve as substitute antibodies…
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