Hopkins researchers attacking tumor in hopes of eliminating need for more radical treatment
Posted: 10/27/2011
BALTIMORE - There's a new possibility for the fight against breast cancer. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that pumping medicine right to the tumor in the breast could end the need for more radical treatment such as a mastectomy in some women. The initial results are encouraging and is showing no major side effects in people.
Johns Hopkins University reseachers, along with breast cancer specialist Dr. Susan Love, say this alternative is better than sending toxic chemotherapy throughout a women's body.
Researchers say 40,000 women a year could use this treatment. Doctors say the procedure would work by taking a thin catheter and thread it into the women's duct which would creating a passageway that lets them deliver medicines directly to those tumor cells.
Scientists say it has showed no major side effects in patients and it's worked to knock out the cancer in animals.
( ABC News and Newswise, Inc. contributed to much of this report.)
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