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srharries
Member
9 years ago

Herceptin + Lapatinib -

Hi Everyone, 

This is my first post after recently joining the online community. A Facebook article prompted me ... has anyone heard of the recent clinical trial, funded by Cancer Research UK, combining Herceptin and Lapatinib? The results were published a year ago, March 2016, but I just saw it on FB. 

"257 women with HER2 positive breast cancer were selected for the study, with half being put on the drug combo and the other half were the control group. What they found was that of those on the drug, 11% had no cancer cells remaining within two weeks and 17% of cases featured dramatically shrunken tumors."

The full article is here (2 versions): 

http://educateinspirechange.org/health/scientists-amsterdam-just-destroyed-breast-cancer-tumors-11-days-without-chemo/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160310125513.htm

Any advances that prove useful to bypass surgery and chemo are a very good thing, in my opinion :) 

4 Replies

  • Ann-Marie's avatar
    Ann-Marie
    Member
    9 years ago
    @"PeacefulWarrior " and @"Soldier Crab" I have asked our Policy team to take a look into this for you.
  • socoda's avatar
    socoda
    Member
    9 years ago
    Hi PeacefulWarrior, Welcome to the community but sorry that you're here. Isn't that article fantastic (thanks for posting). I like the fact that it combines those two treatments and gets a good result. Who knows - maybe the cure is already here somewhere and just waiting to be combined with something else!! Or used for a totally different purpose like with botox and cerebral palsy. Certainly something to keep an eye on.Hope you're doing ok. Big hug to you. Xx Cath
  • primek's avatar
    primek
    Member
    9 years ago
    Thanks for the article. Looking at it, it is a small sample group with only 1/3 response rate. If you google both drug names with the words " clinical trials" it looks as though there have been a number of studies done in the last 10 years, but I gather at this stage not significant enough results  to change current therapy. It would be wonderful if it did and future women would be able to have easier and less surgical treatment of their cancers. Kath x
  • SoldierCrab's avatar
    SoldierCrab
    Member
    9 years ago
    @Cosette_BCNA
    @Ann-Marie_BCNA
     
    What has BCNA thought of this ? and can you point @"PeacefulWarrior "
    in the direction of BCNA's information on this new combo.... 
    thank you