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.

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