Sunday, June 3, 2007

Glaxo's Tykerb helps some breast cancer patients

(Reuters) - The addition of Tykerb to standard chemotherapy treatment
failed to help most breast cancer patients, the researchers
told a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.




However, it did increase survival in those patients who
were HER2-positive, a type of breast cancer that spreads more
quickly and accounts for a quarter of cases, they said.


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