Creation Of Trojan Horse Drug Therapy For Treating BC

Because BC like lung cancer ovarian cancers don't have many better options, so many women in stage IV make do with the lousy, hardhitting, ineffective, expensive drugs like platinums, and make them blockbuster drugs.  

It's important for patients to call the BS and say:  forget about marketing/enjoying the billion dollar franchises of ineffective/expensive drugs,  get to work finding better targetting and better effective treatment of stage IVers.   We will just say no to the ineffective drugs like avastin or platinum that often adds just a couple/a few of months.   (of course, for certain patients the response is longer, we need to figure out who these patients are by running clinical trials, but overall, the drugs are not worthless, but not a lot)

This study is cool though, thanks for sharing cp. 

For lung cancer, carboplatin may be more first-line in nonmetastatic situations.

For BC, as far as i know, platinum drugs are not used as first line in nonmetastatic/nonrecurrent situations.

The reason: it's not that effective for stage IVer BC, lung cancer.   so it's used by stage IVers, who ran out of more efffective therapies like taxol, ac.   a minority of patients respond to it at first, then majority of this minority soon develop resistance to it.   Hence the grim stats of stage IV survival for BC or lung cancer.  

In combination possibly, or maybe you mean cytoxan?    

Combination often yields better results than singles.   Taxol and AC are still the workhorse 1st line chemo for BC.  I may be wrong, but i'm really surprised to see any woman treated with carbo before taxol in this day/age, unless she is sensitive or allergic.