GlaxoSmithKline, Roche Drugs Help Treat Breast Cancer in Brain
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Plc’s breast cancer pill Tykerb, used with Roche Holding AG (ROG)’s drug Xeloda, helped treat the disease’s spread to the brain, according to a study.
The treatments shrank the size of brain tumors by at least 50 percent in two-thirds of the patients studied, according to a trial funded by London-based Glaxo and published today in the Lancet Oncology journal. The research included 45 women who have the HER2 gene and advanced stage breast cancer.
The treatments shrank the size of brain tumors by at least 50 percent in two-thirds of the patients studied, according to a trial funded by London-based Glaxo and published today in the Lancet Oncology journal. The research included 45 women who have the HER2 gene and advanced stage breast cancer.