Dramatic improvement in chemotherapy success rate - The Independent 14th November 2007

Doctors have dramatically increased the success rate for chemotherapy in breast cancer by targeting patients with the most sensitive tumours – using a new genetic test. By using the test to select patients, they say chemotherapy could eradicate the tumour in 70 per cent of those treated, compared with 44 per cent now. Reporting their findings in The Lancet Oncology, the researchers from University of Bordeaux, France, say: "This is such a big improvement that we need to do another study to make sure it is really true but if it is confirmed, it will make a big difference to the way doctors treat breast cancer."

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