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Cancer pill 'gave me four years of extra time' (www.bbc.com)
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In trials, in 708 women, when combined with hormone therapy, the drug doubled the time the cancer took to grow, from 3.6 months to 7.3 months, and shrank tumours in 23% of patients.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

This is so positive! People forget cancer sometimes isn't survivable but extra time is weightless

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2214131

The paper the article is based on is here

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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