Similar Stories to Shorter Breast Cancer Treatment Just As Effective on Bing News

Anne Stych, Biz Journals
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 4:46am

A shorter regimen of a drug used to treat early-stage breast cancer works just as well as using it for twice as long, saving patients thousands of dollars and sparing them serious side effects.   A new study, paid for by the British government, followed thousands of patients with aggressive early-stage breast cancer tumors with high levels of a protein called HER2, which promotes cancer growth.  Herceptin, also known as trastuzumab, is an antibody that targets the protein to stop the breast cancer…

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