New cervical cancer treatment cuts mortality risk by 40%

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/14/new-cervical-cancer-treatment-regime-cuts-risk-dying

"Doctors are hailing a “remarkable” new treatment regime for cervical cancer that reduces the risk of dying by 40%, in the biggest advance against the disease in 25 years.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, with about 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization. In the UK, there are about 3,200 cases and 800 deaths each year.

Many of those affected are in their 30s, and despite improvements in care, the cancer returns in as many as 30% of cases.

The new treatment plan was tested in patients recruited over 10 years from the UK, Mexico, India, Italy and Brazil. It involves a short course of chemotherapy before patients undergo chemoradiation, the standard treatment for cervical cancer involving a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. "...(more)

[ailsagirl]

1. That is HUGE!!

Thanks for posting!!

[Teacher of the Year]

2. Golly. Great things happen when science focuses on women's health care.

Maybe we should let the drs and scientists make these kinds of decisions. Not Marjorie Taylor Spleen.

[Teacher of the Year]

3. I'm commenting twice just because.

My mom passed of cancer last year and someone's mom is NOT going to pass from cancer next year because of this and I can celebrate that all day long.

And, you know, give this post a kick with the extra comment.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. ❤️

[LoisB]

5. This is great news.

[momta]

6. My mother died of cervical cancer.

This was 1979. She was 43, and had four kids. I was 16, and my three brothers and I were devastated. Forty-five years later, we still remember it as a defining period of our lives.

Thanks for posting this. Anything that keeps a family from going through that hell is very welcome news.

[DFW]

7. My wife had one of the deadliest forms of it

It’s called “der Mörder” in Germany, or “the murderer.”

It’s called that because it is completely silent and gives no indication it’s there until it has spread, and it’s too late. My wife was diagnosed by pure chance, and so early that it had not even begun to spread. Her oncologist/surgeon took 84 (!!!) biopsies, and all 84 came back negative. He said it was the first time ever he had seen that, and she was the one woman he had ever treated in 30 years that he said needed no chemo. That one in ten thousand.

[Fla Dem]

8. Great news, now on to 50%!!!

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

Happy news.