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nitpicked

(266 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 08:19 AM Oct 2023

Biggest cervical cancer drug advance in 20 years hailed

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67192441

Scientists say they may have made the biggest breakthrough in treating cervical cancer in 20 years, using a course of existing, cheap drugs ahead of usual radiotherapy treatment.

Trial findings, revealed at the ESMO medical conference, show the approach cut the risk of women dying from the disease or the cancer returning by 35%.
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Cervical cancer affects thousands of women each year in the UK, many in their early 30s. Despite improvements in radiotherapy care, cancer returns in up to a third of cases, meaning new approaches are very much needed.
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Dr Mary McCormack, lead investigator of the trial from UCL Cancer Institute and UCLH, said: "Our trial shows that this short course of additional chemotherapy delivered immediately before the standard CRT can reduce the risk of the cancer returning or death by 35%.
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Dunno, most of my friends who had their uterus removed Warpy Oct 2023 #1

Warpy

(111,319 posts)
1. Dunno, most of my friends who had their uterus removed
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 11:01 AM
Oct 2023

due to cancerous or pre cancerous lesions wouldn't want to go back and preserve the damned thing.

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