Potential Breast Cancer Treatments

Brest cancer is far from being cured so it’s definitely promising to hear that potential treatments beyond radiation are actually being sought out. According to medicalnewstoday.com “Researchers at the University of Michigan have described a new approach to discovering potential cancer treatments that requires a fraction of the time needed for more traditional methods.” This is incredibly promising when you think about how long there has been a strong push to eradicate breast cancer.

The main problem with new drugs is making sure that the healthy cells manage to stay healthy. The many challenges presented by this particular problem require research and as stated “Discovering new targets for cancer therapeutics is a long and tedious undertaking, and identifying and developing a potential drug to specifically hit that target without harming healthy cells is a daunting task.”

The work has paid off because as they stated “They discovered a particular antibody 4C3, that was able to almost completely stop the proliferation of the breast cancer cells. They then identified the molecule on the cancer cells that the antibody targets.” It’s not yet known how truly effective 4C3 will be but the hope is that it will be a big factor in the current battle against breast cancer.

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