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A new drug is on the horizon for patients with advanced breast cancer. 
 
Tykerb is a new type of medication known as a "smart" drug, as it affects only cancer cells, not healthy ones. 
 
It is intended for women who aren't responding to Herceptin. 
 
Tykerb can be taken in pill form, and has fewer side effects than Herceptin as well. 
 
The drug is still in experimental use, with FDA approval at least months away.

Drug attacks genetic roots of breast cancer

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 6/3/2006 12:15 AM

An experimental drug tested in Pittsburgh is so effective at treating aggressive forms of breast cancer that doctors say it gives new hope to women battling the disease and represents another powerful weapon to attack cancer at its genetic roots.
 
Tykerb -- a so-called "smart drug" that targets only tumor cells -- halts the progress of advanced breast cancer in patients who no longer respond to the best-selling drug Herceptin, according to study results to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Atlanta.
 
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