New Drug Fights Type of Aggressive Breast Cancer

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"For IBC patients, these results should be very encouraging because there's now more of a dedicated research effort for a type of breast cancer that has long been ignored and misunderstood," principal investigator Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli, associate professor, department of breast medical oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, said in a prepared statement.

"With lapatinib, we finally have a drug on which to build effective therapy -- we just have to refine the most effective way to use it," Cristofanilli said.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about inflammatory breast cancer.

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