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A team of scientists from Queen Medical Center, Foundation NHS University Hospital of Nottingham, UK, have discovered that a family of drugs used to combat high blood pressure, beta-blockers, can help stop cancer metastasis breast tumor that causes the spread to other parts of the body.

The results of this research, which were presented at the European Conference on Breast Cancer held in Barcelona, in patients treated with these drugs – which work by blocking hormones that allow the spread of cancer cells – is reduced in a “significant” metastasis and thus, improved survival compared with those who did not.

The study, carried out in collaboration with experts from the University of Witten (Germany), had a total of 466 breast cancer patients were divided into three groups: those that were already under treatment for hypertension with beta -blockers, those treated with other hypertension drugs, and those not suffering from hypertension and therefore did not take treatment for it.

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