Finally we may get a respite from the dreaded breast cancer in the near future! Scientists were trying to find a cure for breast cancer and now they have successfully developed a drug that eradicate tumors completely in just 11 days, says doctors.
An exposure therapy has been revealed by the doctors and said that they had never seen breast cancer patients react hastily to a cancer treatment. New two drug technique could save millions of women gruelling chemotherapy.
Lead consultant and surgical oncology professor at the University of Manchester, Nigel Bundred has stated, “This has ground-breaking potential because it allows us to identify a group of patients who, within 11 days, have had their tumors disappear with anti-HER2 therapy alone and who potentially may not require subsequent chemotherapy.” This offers the opportunity to tailor treatment for each individual woman.
Doctors plan to combine two drugs – Tyverb and Herceptin to see the effect on cancerous cells and gave them to women quickly after they were diagnosed. The results were scandalous. In result, more than 80 per cent of the participants in the trial responded to the treatment positively. It shrink the HER2-positive tumors significantly in less than two weeks.
Nigel Bundred said, “A combination of two anti-HER2 therapies — Tykerb and Herceptin — induce tumor regression or disappearance in 25 percent of HER2-positive cancers in 11 days.” This drug combination shows new hope in breast cancer patients and get to see a future in the cure of dreadful cancer
The EPHOS-B clinical trial has been presented at the 10th European Breast Cancer Conference on March 10.
