Breast Cancer Drug Hope For Stomach Tumour Patients

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Using the breast cancer drug Herceptin in patients with stomach cancer could help extend their lives by a quarter, new research has suggested. Adding Herceptin to standard chemotherapy treatment appears to prolong the lives of patients with advanced stomach cancer on average by nearly 2.7 months to 13.8 months - a 26 per cent increase in survival.

 

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