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Aug 2021
Aspirin could help to treat aggressive breast cancer
Doctors say aspirin could help fight aggressive breast cancer by making hard-to-treat tumours more responsive to anti-cancer drugs.
A research team at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester are commencing a trial with triple-negative breast cancer patients, as they suspect it is aspirin’s anti-inflammatory properties rather than its analgesic effect that gives the boost.
Around 8,000 women are diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in the UK every year, a less common but often more aggressive type of breast cancer that disproportionately affects younger and black women.
These tumours lack receptors other breast cancers have, meaning certain treatments for example Herceptin, will not work, although other treatments and medicines can help.
In the new trial, which is being funded by a research programme run by the charity Breast Cancer Now, some patients will be given aspirin alongside immunotherapy drug avelumab before they receive chemotherapy treatment and surgery.
If successful, there could be further clinical trials of aspirin and avelumab for incurable secondary triple-negative breast cancer, when cancer cells that started in the breast spread to other parts of the body.
Dr Anne Armstrong, trial lead, said “Not all breast cancers respond well to immunotherapy. Trialling the use of a drug like aspirin is exciting because it is so widely available and inexpensive to produce.
“We hope our trial will show that, when combined with immunotherapy, aspirin can enhance its effects and may ultimately provide a safe new way to treat breast cancer.”
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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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