U.S. cancer patients rally for Dendreon, other drugs
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Cancer patients and others  rallied outside the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to  call for the approval of an experimental prostate cancer  therapy and wider access to unapproved drugs.
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Patients who develop the most common  kind of primary malignant brain tumor are sometimes given drugs  they may not need and deprived of others that might help,  medical researchers said on Tuesday.
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Nearly 24 million Americans are  enrolled in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, the U.S.  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said on  Tuesday.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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Local researchers have found that two new designer drugs produce strong responses in patients who&#39;ve become resistant to Gleevec, the leukemia wonder drug that heralded a new era in cancer treatment 3 1/2 years ago.
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U.S. prescription drug sales rose 8.3 percent to $274.9 billion last year, fueled by the Medicare drug benefit, increased use of generic medicines and new treatments for diseases such as cancer and diabetes, according to a new report.
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Therapies that target the basic mechanisms of cancer have become the weapons of choice in the fight against the deadly disease, researchers said at a major doctors&#39; conference in the United States.
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THURSDAY, Feb 10 (HealthDay News) -- A compound derived from a rare South American plant shows promise as a treatment for breast cancer, according to a University of Virginia Health System study.
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ELEANOR HALL: It&#39;s been found to help ameliorate some of the side-effects of chemotherapy, reduce spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and help patients with chronic pain.
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WITH nearly three new cases of breast cancer detected in Singapore every day, a drug that greatly reduces the risk of the disease recurring after surgery is giving such women hope.
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Scientists in Dundee hope that gene research will aid efforts to reduce medication for cancer patients.
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A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it.
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SAN ANTONIO -- Doctors say a newer class of drugs is showing better results in preventing the return of breast cancer than the more traditional drug, tamoxifen.
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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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Last March, the federal government issued an unusually detailed alert to the nation's 5.5 million health care workers: The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them.
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Debate about the safety of a group of  anemia drugs widely used in cancer patients should focus on a  minority of patients who got the drugs for unapproved uses,  doctors said on Sunday.
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A preview of some of the biopharmas presenting at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.