Trastuzumab (herceptin) is a humanized, recombinant monoclonal antibody that binds to the extracellular, juxtamembrane domain of HER2, and is standard care for patients whose breast cancer cells show strong immunohistochemical staining for HER2 or moderate immunohistochemical staining with HER2/neu gene amplification [2]. The gene discussed is ERBB2; the disease is breast cancer.