Our results are in line with those of a smaller study by von Minckwitz et al., in which DCIS was eradicated in 30/59 patients (51%) with HER2-positive IBC who were treated with a neoadjuvant regimen including anthracyclines, taxanes and trastuzumab with or without capecitabine [24]. Here, ERBB2 is linked to inflammatory breast carcinoma.