New Imaging Test to Help Doctors Predict Cancer Patients Who Can Benefit from Hormone Therapy
Feb 17, 2021
Women who have cancer cells carrying estrogen receptors are usually given hormonal therapy as a targeted treatment. However, this treatment is not effective in all patients. However, a good method of accurately predicting which patients will benefit from the treatment and which will not hasn’t existed — until now.
Enter a study conducted by researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. The researchers have found that they can differentiate between patients who may or may not benefit from hormone therapy through the use of an imaging…
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