Phase II study shows new cancer drug combination significantly delays breast cancer progression
Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 04:00
in Health & Medicine
The first randomised trial to investigate the use of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) an antibody-guided drug for the initial treatment of HER2- (human epidermal growth factor receptor-2) positive metastatic breast cancer has shown that it makes a significant difference to the time women live without their disease worsening.