New Research Moves Us One Step Closer To Personalised Breast Cancer Treatment
 

CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have found that a test, already used in breast cancer diagnosis, can also predict who will and who won't benefit from commonly used chemotherapy drugs. The research shows that women who have a duplication of chromosome 17 in their tumour will benefit from anthracycline drugs, while others can be spared the side-effects of the treatment.

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