Experts Issue Plea For Better Research And Education For Advanced Breast Cancer
Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 13:20
in Health & Medicine
Breast cancer experts around the world have issued a plea to researchers, academics, drug companies, funders and advocates to carry out high quality research and clinical trials for advanced breast cancer, a disease which is almost always fatal and for which there are many unanswered questions. In the latest international consensus guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer, published simultaneously in the leading cancer journals The Breast and Annals of Oncology [1] today (Friday), the experts say that further research and clinical trials are "urgently needed" to find the best treatments for: patients with breast cancer that has spread to the liver, or the space around the lungs (pleural cavity) or the skin; read more