subject: Olaparib helps to fight breast cancer [print this page] Olaparib helps to fight breast cancer
ATHERAPY conceptualized by AstraZeneca P.L.C in order to exploit the changes incurredin the malignant cells has shown noteworthy effectiveness against advanced ovarian and breast cancer conducted in two small international studies.
This test was testified by a patient, who had been suffering from this chronic disease and post the trial medications her life transformed completely. The patient, Patricia Buckles, 61 of Memphis said, " It's just so amazing. It's given me two years of my life that traditional chemotherapy could not. I'll stay on it, Lord willing, as long as my cancer stays asleep."
The miracle drug called Olaparib helps in destabilizing the damaged cancer. This medicine further helps to stop the growth of the cancer cell thus making it defective. The drug is manufactured by AstraZeneca based in Wilmington, Delaware. The advancement of the studies were published on the internet in Lancet magazine. Of late, several other pharmaceutical companies have joined the league of making their own "PARP inhibitors" as the medicine helps in fighting different forms of cancer with visibly less and more tolerable side effects.
The study which was led by Andrew Tutt of King's College London School of Medicine had seen the involvement researchers from 18 medical institutions from all across the globe including Penn for breast cancer patients.
The symptoms of breast cancer may at times be serious and not cancerous such as an infection or a cyst. The symptoms as slated by the American Cancer Society includes swelling of all or part of the breast, skin irritation or dimpling, breast pain, nipple pain or nipple turning inward, redness, scaliness or thickening of the nipple or breast skin, a nipple discharge other than breast milk and a lump in the underarm area.
The test was conducted on 27 breast cancer patients who were given a high dose of Olaparib. The results were as follows:
11 of them (41%) had a tumour shrinkage.
12 of them (44%) had no visible tumour growth for a minimum of 23 weeks of the first 24 weeks of study.
6 of them had experienced tumour shrinkage.
12 of them had stable disease.
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