Cancer treatment advances

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“Belantamab mafodotin will be made available to around 1,500 patients a year with Multiple Myeloma - an incurable cancer of the bone marrow - following approval by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellent (NICE)”

NHS England first in the world to roll out 'trojan horse' therapy for blood cancer

The NHS in England will be the first health system globally to offer a ‘trojan horse’ targeted treatment for blood cancer that could delay disease progression nearly three times longer than current options.

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While this cancer can’t be cured, this treatment combined with 2 other treatments has been found to be delay disease progression by 3 years compared to 1 year with daratumumab alongside the same other 2 treatments, and side effects are also managed.

The great news is that England will be the first to receive such treatment! This hopefully means more time to spend with their loved ones! Even better hopefully a cure will eventually be found!

 

[Retro]

This is ok news, since it only delays the inevitable, but still a lot better than nothing. Good find.

I'm sure improvements are going to be made in time as research continues.

 

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There’s been lots of cancer advances lately with great potential for success.

For example, advances in treatments of head and neck cancer has shown promising results.

Immunotherapy drug doubles cancer survival in breakthrough trial

An international study found immunotherapy before surgery could give patients extra years of life.

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An immunotherapy drug given before and after surgery has doubled the length of time the patient will be cancer free - from 2.5 years to 5 years.

 

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As we know breast and lung cancer is particular serious and the NHS is the first to make liquid biopsies available for breast and lung cancer.

NHS first in world to roll out ‘revolutionary’ blood test for cancer patients

Tens of thousands of patients with lung and breast cancer are to benefit from a “revolutionary” blood test on the NHS across England which can speed up access to targeted therapy

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The benefits are:

• Reduced diagnosis time of approximately 16 days - this means that patients can typically begin treatment earlier. As we all know, when it comes to cancers not least of these forms, every moment counts!
• Identifies genetic attributes and variations of cancer, enabling patients to access treatments tailored to their genetic profile

Here’s to some hope that more lives will be saved and that this research can be expanded to other forms of cancer, not least brain cancer which is particularly severe to say the least!