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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Science
Storm Newton

Drugs for advanced breast cancer could help patients with rare condition

UK researchers are testing a world-first blood test for brain cancer (Alamy/PA) -

Drugs that target advanced breast cancer could be beneficial for patients with a rare cancer that affects parts of the digestive system, a trial has found.

Tucatinib and trastuzumab work by blocking a protein known as human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in cancer cells to stop them from growing or spreading.

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