Medical Xpress August 8, 2024
A drug effective in treating breast cancer shows new promise in addressing breast cancer with brain metastases or recurrent glioblastoma, as reported by results of a prospective window-of-opportunity trial at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio).
The window trial, in which patients agreed to receive a novel treatment before undergoing surgery, found that the drug sacituzumab govitecan was well-tolerated and showed signs of effectiveness for those whose breast cancer had progressed to brain tumors.
About half of all women with the aggressive and advanced triple-negative form of breast cancer will be diagnosed with brain metastases, and the prognosis is poor, with a median overall survival of just more than seven months.
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