Breast Cancer Now responds to the Scottish Medicine Consortium’s decisions on breast cancer drugs Perjeta and Decapeptyl SR

  Scottish Medicines Consortium has rejected breast cancer drug, Perjeta (pertuzumab) for routine use on Scotland’s NHS to treat patients...

9 October 2019

New drug could help overcome resistance in triple negative breast cancers

A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, scientists at...

5 October 2019

Scottish Party Leaders wear it pink for Breast Cancer Now

First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon was joined by Jackson Carlaw, Richard Leonard, Willie Rennie and Alison Johnstone as they added a dash of pink to...

18 September 2019

We respond to a to major study into the link between HRT and breast cancer risk

The study, published in The Lancet, used data from 108,647 women who had developed breast cancer to investigate the impact of taking menopausal...

24 August 2019

We respond to development of blood tests to track pre-surgery breast cancer progress

The researchers, from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Cambridge Institute, have created a new technique called TARDIS,...

9 August 2019

We respond to NHS England breast cancer waiting times

New NHS waiting times data from Q1 of 2019/20 (April to June) and the month of June 2019 have been released by NHS England and NHS Improvement....

9 August 2019

We respond to a study suggesting that substituting poultry for red meat may reduce breast cancer risk

The study followed 42,012 American and Puerto-Rican women (35-74 years old), who have a sister or half-sister already diagnosed with breast cancer,...

8 August 2019

We respond to provisional NICE approval of neratinib

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today (7 August 2019) announced its draft decision to provisionally approve...

7 August 2019

Personalised 'liquid biopsy' could detect return of breast cancer nearly eleven months earlier than hospital scans

A personalised blood test for women with early breast cancer could detect the return of the disease nearly eleven months earlier than hospital scans...

1 August 2019