The use of existing, less expensive drugs, before the application of chemoradiation, can reduce by 35% the risk of death from cervical cancer in women, shows a recent study.
The discovery, presented recently at a conference held by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), represents a crucial achievement in the treatment of this type of cancer in the last 20 years, according to BBC News.
In the study, 500 patients with cervical cancer were selected, selected from five countries and aged between 24 and 78 years. Half of them received the new treatment, which consisted of six weeks of carboplatin and paclitaxel, accompanied by “usual” radiotherapy treatment, including chemoradiation. The other half, the control group, received only the standard treatment.
The results indicated that after five years, 80% of the women who followed the new approach were alive and 73% did not have a cancer return or development. In contrast, 72% of women who received the usual treatment with chemotherapy remained alive after five years, and 64% did not have a recurrence of the disease, writes The Guardian.
Cancer Research UK, which funded the research, described the results as “remarkable”.
“Time is everything when you are treating cancer. “The simple addition of induction chemotherapy at the start of chemoradiation treatment for cervical cancer provided remarkable results in this study,” Dr Iain Foulkes, executive director of research and innovation at Cancer Research UK, told The Independent.
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“We are excited about the improvements this study brings to the treatment of cervical cancer and hope that short induction chemotherapy sessions will be quickly adopted by clinics,” continued Foulkes.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)approximately 11,500 new cases are diagnosed every year in this country, and 4,000 deaths are recorded annually.
Screening tests and the HPV vaccine can help prevent cancer, and this disease can be treated in its early stages, the agency mentions.
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2023-10-29 05:47:49
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