New development in the fight against breast cancer

A recent trial has shown amazing potential in the fight against the most common type of cancer for women. Due to a new combination of medicines, some types of breast cancer were eliminated in just 11 days.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early detection is important. Treatments currently available include medicine, chemotherapy and surgery.

The new combination of Trastuzumab and Lapatinib, however, has shown astonishing results.

At the European Breast Cancer conference, Professor Nigel Bundred presented research demonstrating the effectiveness of these drugs when used together.

17 per cent of the cancers showed dramatically shrunken tumours and 11 per cent had disappeared in just two weeks.

These drugs target a protein called Her2, which affects growth and division of cancer cells.

Another positive aspect of this treatment is that it could make chemotherapy and surgery obsolete.

The long-term effects still need to be studied, but it appears to be a major step forward.

Unfortunately, due to problem’s with the drugs’ licensing, it’s often only available when combined with chemotherapy. Hopefully the new research and some media attention will change that.

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