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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maya Oppenheim

‘Momentous milestone’: New ‘life-extending’ drug for NHS to treat breast cancer

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A new “life-extending” drug has been recommended for use via the NHS to treat women with breast cancer, in a move campaigners have hailed as a “momentous milestone”.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has recommended the drug, Trodelvy, should be given to women with triple-negative breast cancer – a highly aggressive form of the disease which is tricky to find treatments for.

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