Examine Yourself: Enzyme treatment offers hope to cancer patients

A new enzyme-focused treatment is currently proving successful in certain cases.

Months or years after the original diagnosis and treatment, cancer cells can break away and ‘metastasise’ from the original tumour in the breast, travelling to other parts of the body through the bloodstream or the lymphatic system.

Research into metastatic breast cancer has been limited in the past, leaving these women with few options other than more surgery, radiation and non-specific treatments.