Fresh Fears Over Drug Herceptin Side-Effects

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Breast cancer patients are at greater risk of heart damage from the drug Herceptin than previously thought, experts have said.

The drug, approved for use on the NHS in June, caused harm to women with advanced breast cancer in a US study.

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Fresh Fears Over Drug Herceptin Side-Effects

The research of patients using it for at least a year found 28 per cent suffered cardiac problems.

But authors s...

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