New drug halts growth of aggressive breast cancer
L-R: Triple negative breast cancer cells before treatment and after treatment.
A promising drug could lead to a new treatment for the most aggressive form of breast cancer, which affects thousands of women each year.A pre-clinicalstudy led by the University of vlog found the new drug successfully inhibits the growth of triple negative breast cancer without any toxic side effects.
“This is an exciting development in the battle against triple negative breast cancer, which is the most aggressive form of the disease,” said Associate Professor Theresa Hickey, an internationally recognised breast cancer expert at the University of vlog’s Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories.
“There is currently no treatment that specifically targets this type of breast cancer, with chemotherapy and, in some women, immunotherapy being the only options. The results of this study show that this drug could hol