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Breast cancer test 'offers hope'

A new test that identifies seven distinct types of breast cancer offers new hope to women with the disease, scientists claim. The tumour sample test could be available within two years and is expected to lead to more personalised treatments.

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New test 'could be step towards personalised care'

Breast Cancer Campaign chief executive Baroness Delyth Morgan said a new test "could be a realistic step towards making the holy grail of personalised medicine a reality".

Baroness Morgan said:

The days of one size fits all treatment are well and truly in the past.

We need to ensure the life-saving and life-extending treatments we already have in the clinic are used more effectively - directing the right treatments to those who will benefit, and sparing others from unnecessary side effects, so that by 2050 we can achieve our ambition to overcome breast cancer.

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