Monday, December 26, 2011

Treatment of thyroid cancer

Treatment of thyroid cancer





Announced that researchers at the Mayo Clinic that the U.S. drug Bazupanab

May help to bring about a revolution in the treatment of patients with thyroid cancer

Which is characterized by it spread rapidly in the body

The researchers studied 37 patients with the most brutal forms of

This cancer, which affects less than 5 per cent

Of patients with thyroid cancer

They found that about half of these patients

Or 18 patients responded to drug Bazupanab

The long term and this group

12 of them are still alive

Did not increase the spread of the disease in their bodies

The rate of survival at one year 81 percent

The researchers say that the positive reaction to this drug

Represents the highest response rates for cases of intractable

Cancer of the thyroid gland, but warned

That this does not mean the use of the drug in the treatment of patients

Who suffer from slow growth of thyroid cancer

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