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Oct 2018

New treatment may extend the survival rates of women with advanced breast cancer

A new clinical trial has suggested that by combining hormone therapy with a pioneering drug may extend the lives of some women with advanced breast cancer. The women who took part in the trial and received the drug palbociclib alongside hormone therapy lived for up to 40 months longer than those given hormone therapy alone.…

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Oct 2018

Nursing shortage leaves terminal breast cancer patients ‘abandoned’

According to cancer Breast Cancer Care, thousands of terminal breast cancer patients are being denied specialist nursing care, and that almost three quarters of UK NHS trusts are currently not providing dedicated nurses. This comes despite a government statement three years ago that it was ‘committed to increasing the capacity’ of specialist cancer nurses and…

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