Walking the Wall

On 2nd August Catherine will set off from Wallsend, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, to walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall to Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria. She hopes to complete the 100km distance from coast to coast across Northern England in eight days to raise money for Secondary1st. The construction of Hadrian’s Wall began in 122 A.D. to guard the…

A New Breast Cancer Drug

Results of a trial of Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) were presented at the 2022 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Enhertu is a specifically engineered HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate which looks for breast cancer cells, binds to the HER2 protein on their surface and then…