Drug offers ‘wonderful’ breakthrough in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer
by Andrew Gregory Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6JNBH)
Medicine used alongside chemotherapy in trials quadrupled three-year survival rates for mesothelioma
Scientists have developed a drug to treat mesothelioma, a notoriously hard-to-treat cancer linked to asbestos, in the biggest breakthrough in two decades.
Thousands of people are diagnosed with the disease globally every year, which tends to develop in the lungs and is mainly caused by exposure to asbestos at work. It is aggressive and deadly, and has one of the world's worst cancer survival rates.
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