Therapeutic landscape of advanced HER2-positive breast cancer in 2022.

HER2-positive breast cancer is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer with five-year survival rates of 30% for the advanced stage. The development of anti-HER2 treatments has led to a paradigm shift in the management and clinical outcomes of advanced HER2-positive breast cancer patients. The standard first-line treatment consists of taxane-based chemotherapy plus dual anti-HER2 therapies with trastuzumab and pertuzumab.