Kidney Cancer Drug Linked to Higher Rate of Heart Problems
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A greater percentage of patients than previously thought may develop heart failure when taking the breakthrough cancer drug Sutent, researchers report.
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Some types of chemotherapy are known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the risks, French researchers report.
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A panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration gave strong signals yesterday that it thinks the blockbuster anemia drug called erythropoietin is overused in cancer treatment and may, in fact, be shortening the lives of some patients who take it.
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AstraZeneca Plc. said on Wednesday a new study in Japan showed a higher rate of a potentially fatal side effect in patients taking its lung cancer pill Iressa than that demonstrated in an earlier analysis.
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BLOW TO ANOTHER DRUG: A cancer prevention study found people taking very high doses of the painkiller Celebrex had higher risk of heart problems.
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More evidence of how painkillers called COX-2 inhibitors can raise the risk of heart disease was published Monday, showing Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra can triple the risk of heart attack and stroke in certain patients.
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Women with breast cancer who take tamoxifen are less likely to have a heart attack than women with other types of cancer who are not taking the drug, according to a new report.
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More than a quarter of patients with advanced kidney cancer saw their tumors shrink after treatment with GlaxoSmithKline Plc's pazopanib, a new pill designed to rival Genentech's blockbuster drug Avastin, researchers said on Saturday.
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Fifteen percent of patients who took  Sutent, a pill used to treat kidney and stomach cancers,  developed heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on  Wednesday.
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A drug already used to treat kidney cancer became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a clinical trial, adding about three months to survival compared to a placebo, according to a study released on Monday.
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Women treated with radiation for breast cancer during the 1980s may have a higher risk of heart disease, researchers in the Netherlands reported on Wednesday.
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Bayer AG may have known its withdrawn  cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol caused a high rate of a  serious muscle condition more than a year before it added a  warning to its label, according to a prominent medical journal.
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More patients are receiving cancer drugs, according to a report by the UK government's cancer tsar.
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In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Several pain medicines in the United States have been linked to an increase in heart attacks and strokes. Pfizer Drug Company says a new study shows that high levels of Celebrex increase the risk of heart attack.
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Another blockbuster painkiller, Celebrex, has been found to raise the risk of heart attacks when taken in high doses, the drug&#39;s maker said yesterday.
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The risk of developing a type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to body mass index (BMI) and to the increase in BMI since age 20, according to the findings from two new European ...