Patient Case Presentation: A 34-Year-Old Woman with HER+ mBC and Brain Metastases

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Rani Bansal, MD, discusses the case of a 54-year-old post-menopausal patient who develops liver and brain metastases after undergoing prior therapy with trastuzumab/pertuzumab and T-DM1.

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