“New hope for breast cancer patients?”

August 18, 2008

Drug capsules

Here’s another guest post by Science Information Officer Jo Peak.

Over the last week, there’s been a flurry of headlines concerning a study showing that a particular combination of commonly-used (and cheap) breast cancer drugs can “halt cancer in its tracks”. But do these findings “offer new hope for thousands of breast cancer patients” as the headlines suggest, or is that overstating things? Let’s take a more detailed look at the report….

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