Any new study that shows success over the battle of fighting cancer gives us hope and makes our day. We share you a study from scientists in Europe that didn’t expect great success over their research but they did a breakthrough for cancer. The most common cancer in women, the breast cancer, can develop to every 1 of 8 women in American women and we hope that we have finally found the permanent solution to breast cancer now.
Research presented by Prof. Nigel Bundred at the European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam revealed that they had tested a pair of drugs known as Herceptin (a.k.a trastuzumab) and Lapatinib, and proven that they were very effective.
The two drugs were used for fighting cancer already before, but they were never mixed together or used before surgery and chemotherapy. They were successfully eliminating the cancer cells in 11 days.
Whit the research funded by Cancer Research UK they wanted to produce a protein called HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2), which is known for affecting the growth and division in cancer cells. This makes the treatment more effective and safe when dealing with cancer, instead of chemotherapy and radiation.
Women with confirmed cancer, over 275 of them were selected for the study research. In the first round, 130 women were placed in one of the three groups they made – some received Herceptin (trastuzumab), others received lapatinib. Both these groups were treated for 11 days after being diagnosed and before surgery. The third group received no treatment (this was the control group) before surgery. After the tests were over, they find out that 7 of the 66 women had no cancer cells remaining as a result of taking the drugs and an additional 11 women featured dramatically shrunken tumors.
To the group that received no drugs before surgery (they were given after Herceptin) showed almost 0 results, 0% with no trace of cancer cells and only 3% showed a drop in tumor size. This confirmed that the two drugs combined give a powerful result instead of using just one.
There is still a lot of work to be done, but this is a major step in the fight against the deadliest disease in the world now. Hopefully humanity will beat cancer, and we hope as soon as possible.