New cure for breast cancer

In the US, through the stage of clinical trials of a new drug takes on breast cancer, have already shown amazing results. It reduces the size of tumors at a stage when other medications can no longer help. At the heart of the new facility is already well-established Herceptin, which is now used in combination with a specific type of chemotherapy.

12% of patients who have passed through this treatment, the development of Breast Cancer   stopped. These results were so surprising that the therapy was tested on women only in the final stages breast cancer Which I have passed through all the known methods of treatment, including mastectomy But could not get rid of the tumor.

US charities involved using patients breast cancer , Called the clinical results stunning. It calls for an immediate start wider testing on more patients.

In recent years Herceptin   It is considered a "miracle drug" against Breast Cancer , Although in severe cases it does not help even. American scientists connected with the drug Chemotherapy First known as DM1 (prevents cell division, cancer spreads). The resulting combination - the last hope for the now hopeless patients.

110 patients have passed through the study, seven types previously undergone treatment breast tumor . None of them helped. Only then they were given a combination of "two in one" - Herceptin   plus DM1. The new medicine has been called TDM1 .

According to experts before the widespread use of this tool may take from three to five years.

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