Erythropoietin counteracts breast cancer treatment with herceptin
Monday, November 15, 2010 - 17:01
in Health & Medicine
Red-blood-cell-boosting drugs used to treat anemia may undermine breast cancer treatment with Herceptin, a targeted therapy that blocks the cancer-promoting HER2 protein, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the Nov. 16 edition of Cancer Cell.