The United Kingdom is making progress on treating breast cancer. It still lags behind the rest of Europe with the highest mortality rate from the disease but the UK did have the second largest drop out of thirty countries from last year to this year.
Prof Robert Pirker of the Medical University of Vienna said that personalized therapy, in which treatment is based on the characteristics of an individual patient’s tumor, promised to improve outcomes for patients, as well as being more cost-effective and less toxic than existing treatments. “Recently, oral treatment with the targeted drug gefitinib was shown to be superior [...]
Cancer of the adrenal glands does not get the kind of press coverage as other types of cancer, but it can be just as deadly. Adrenal cancer, although one of the rarest forms of cancer, is being shone in a brighter light, though, as a new drug may be able to buy time for those stricken with it. [...]