New drugs treatment offers cancer hope

Based on cases reported to the Friends of Cancer Patients Society charity in the UAE during the first half of this year, breast cancer was the highest form of cancer among women. The charity announced the new trial as it launched its breast cancer campaign, Paint it Pink.

“This ICS-funded research has, for the first time, shown that this combination of drugs offers greater benefit in halting the growth and spread of breast cancer cells, compared to each of the drugs alone”.

Commenting on the changes to European Pharmaceutical Review, Professor Peter Clark, Chair of the Cancer Drug Fund, stated: “There is no escaping the fact that we face a hard set of choices, but it is our duty to ensure we get maximum value from every penny available on behalf of patients”.

More and more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer and there has been an 18 per cent increase in the number of breast cancer patients in a decade taking the number of patients from 38,153 in 2003 to 44,831 in 2013; however, the number of specialist breast cancer nurses – also known as clinical nurse specialists – has remained constant at 434 throughout England since 2007.

There are many ways to get involved and help save lives. “We brought these encouraging results back to Bayer which is now funding our clinical trial to verify the results”. It’s one of the biggest fundraisers in the country and organizers for the marquee event of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation are hoping it will stay that way in 2015 despite the economic downturn.

Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of the division of cancer prevention and control research at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Elisa Long, assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management concluded the BRCA genetic test that is most widely used today is too expensive to warrant universal screening, given how rare BRCA mutations are.

“Without that type of treatment I would not be here”, said Cason, who was diagnosed with breast cancer just a few years ago at the age of 31. “I’d just gotten my lunch, so I spent some time listening to the inspirational speakers, watching the women in the crowd”.

Karen Timson, 54, who works in the healthcare sector, had been aware of a lump, but both she and her GP initially thought it was a repeat of the cysts she had previously been diagnosed with. She said the real journey began after the toughest physical times, like in treatment when her hair would fall out.

“That’s why six months after my last chemotherapy, I chose to regain that lost faith and started karate, ballroom dancing and scuba diving”. After fighting cancer, she’s now fighting for more women in her community of Alamance County.

She said: “It was because we were really not careful I got pregnant. I will always praise Northampton General Hospital for the professional, timely and empathetic manner in which they cared for me and, due to their expert care and treatment, I ended up with a good outcome”.

“She called me up on New Year’s Eve and said “I’m telling you now so we can start the new year off a fresh”.