5 Breast Cancer Research Updates
By Beth Howard
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It's been an exciting year in breast cancer research: A number of recent advances will help prevent, detect, and treat the disease that women dread so much. Among the most important:
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Hope for tough cases. Relatively few drugs work against "triple negative" breast cancer -- tumors lacking receptors for estrogen, progesterone, and HER2. But a new category of drug called PARP inhibitors may change that. In a study of patients with advanced breast cancer, getting a PARP inhibitor along with chemo increased survival time by 50 percent -- a striking improvement if it holds up in further studies, researchers say.