New Chemo Cocktail Blocks Breast Cancer Like A Strong Fence

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

A new chemotherapy cocktail cuts the spread of breast cancer by half and is the first drug to attack metastasizing breast cancer. The disease becomes fatal when it travels outside the mammary ducts, enters the bloodstream and spreads to the bones, liver or brain. Currently, there are only drugs that try to stem the uncontrolled division of cancer cells within the ducts.

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