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Media Relations

Medical breakthrough -- attacking advanced breast cancer

WQAD, IL
Aug. 31, 2006

A new drug, sutent, stops advanced breast cancer from progressing -- and even reduces the size of tumors. Dr. George Sledge, an oncologist from the Indiana University School of Medicine, says sutent could be used as a frontline treatment for breast cancer that has spread. "This holds out so much promise that I think if you are a physician dealing with breast cancer research you can only be excited about this," he says.

Read the entire article at: http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=5347647&nav=7k8p

Learn more about the IU School of Medicine at: http://www.medicine.iu.edu

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