New Breast Cancer Treatment Options
Study in Asian Women Presents New Treatment Options for Breast Cancer
Madison, Wis. -- April 18, 2001 -- /Xpress Press/ -- The
need for a simple
and economic treatment for breast cancer may be answered by the results
of
a five-year research trial in Asia.
Dr. Richard R. Love directed the research and will present
findings at the
annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) May
15
in San Francisco. Dr Love is president of the International Breast Cancer
Research Foundation (IBCRF) and a leading clinical breast cancer researcher
with the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"The revolution in understanding of the biology of breast cancer
is
beginning to give real hope for better treatments and longer lives,"
Dr.
Love said.
The Asian study evaluated the use of a combined surgical/medical
approach
in some 700 young (premenopausal) women with breast cancer.
Dr. Love will be available at ASCO to provide specifics of the five-year
trial that took place in Vietnam and China beginning in 1993.
IBCRF is committed to testing new therapies that, if proven
effective, can
be widely accessible at low cost. That combination is essential in making
effective cancer treatment available to the estimated 80 percent of the
world's population that presently cannot access expensive state-of-the-art
cancer therapies.
Dr. Love stresses that further clinical trials are needed
to add to the
growing base of knowledge supporting these positive results.
"Our approach is to use the most promising opportunities, ideas,
and
resources of physicians, researchers and patients worldwide to fight breast
cancer," Dr. Love says. "IBCRF hopes to sponsor similar major
health
initiatives in breast cancer in countries across the globe."
To schedule interviews with Dr. Love, and, learn more about
IBCRF contact:
Angela Williamson, Executive Assistant, IBCRF
222 South Hamilton Street, Suite 25
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.286.8265
FAX: 608.286.8266
E-Mail: angela@ibcrf.org
http://www.ibcrf.org