Medical Illustration: Targeting HER2 in Gastric Cancer

April 15, 2016
Erin Moore

CURE, Gastrointestinal Special Issue, Volume 1, Issue 1

For about 20 percent of patients with advanced gastric cancer, tumors overproduce a receptor protein called HER2.

ILLUSTRATION BY ERIN MOORE

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN “GUT REACTION,” CURE WINTER 2009

*HER2 is also associated with breast cancer.

For about 20 percent of patients with advanced gastric cancer, tumors overproduce a receptor protein called HER2.

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