Breast Cancer

Clinical trial tests delivery of chemotherapy directly to breast ducts

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 16th, 2006

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers are studying whether delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to breast "plumbing" might make treatment of early breast cancer easier on the patient and at least as good as surgery or radiation.

A report on successful tests of intraductal therapy in rats and mice published in the January 15, 2006, issue of Cancer Research has paved the way for one of the first preliminary clinical trials in women with breast cancer. It is under way in women with breast cancer scheduled for a mastectomy at Johns Hopkins.

For more than a decade, researchers have been studying how to diagnose breast cancer earlier by...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-16)

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