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6-week breast cancer cure
London: British scientists have developed a new chemotherapy-drug course which they claim could treat breast cancer in just six weeks.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed the combination that when given to the patient for over a period of six weeks was as effective as six months of treatment.
The team found that when a combination of doxorubicin — a chemotherapy drug commonly given to stop tumour growth — and zoledronic acid — a treatment given to protect bone in advanced breast cancer — regularly given to breast cancer patients destroyed tumours in a shorter period of time.
In a mice-model test, the team treated a group of mice with the combination every week for six months and another group for six weeks. They observed that in both the groups tumours shrank from their original size and became barely detectable. PTI
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