Mustafa Fattah is a medical fellow with the NBC News Health and Medical Unit.
The Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of Kisqali, a drug for metastatic breast cancer, to also treat patients with earlier stages of the disease, drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday. The approval means that tens of thousands of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will have access to a medication that can help prevent their cancer from coming back. “Depending on your risks and everything, up to 30% of breast cancers can come back,” said Dr.
“The first thing that I thought of was, ‘I’m not ready to die, so what do I gotta do?’” said Odum, of Smyrna, Tennessee. After she had a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation, her doctor, Denise Yardley, asked if she wanted to join the clinical trial for Kisqali. “It was a no-brainer for me. I was like, ‘Game on, let’s do it,’” Odum said.
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