Sorafenib significantly improves the length of time before breast cancer worsens

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 07:21 in Health & Medicine

Berlin, Germany: One of the first of a series of trials to investigate the use of sorafenib -- a targeted anti-cancer drug -- for the treatment of advanced breast cancer has found that if it is combined with the chemotherapy drug, capecitabine, it makes a significant difference to the time women live without their disease worsening.

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