Description of the creation of a monoclonal antibody treatment for breast cancer, images with script

KS4/5: Use with students learning about monoclonal antibodies and/or treatments for cancer

Film version available here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/herceptin-the-first-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-for-cancer/

Herceptin video script
Slide 1 of 11
Worldwide, 1.6 million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year, with over half a million deaths.
(http://globocan.iarc.fr/Pages/fact_sheets_cancer.aspx)
40 years ago in the UK, the five year survival rate following diagnosis was 50%. Today that figure is 80% thanks to advances in treatment and screening.
One of these advances is Herceptin, a breast cancer drug that reduces the chance of the cancer returning by over a third.