Compound  Boosts Tamoxifen's Cancer-Fighting Power
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Adding a second drug to tamoxifen, the breast cancer drug used successfully for more than 20 years, helps it retain its full strength, scientists at the U.S. National Cancer Institute report.
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Removal of the ovaries  (oophorectomy) plus tamoxifen, as adjuvant, or "add-on"  therapy, significantly improves survival in premenopausal women  with operable breast cancer, a study indicates.
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Women with advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option Tuesday with the approval of a novel drug made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
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12/8/04- the drug tamoxifen has long been the 1st line of therapy for preventing the return of breast cancer, but researchers say another drug may be more effective and could soon become the 1st choice treatment for post-menopausal women who&#39;ve had the
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A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S. and British researchers said on Wednesday.
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(Dec. 8) -- Researchers believe they have a better drug for preventing recurring cases of breast cancer. After breast cancer surgery, women are often given the drug Tamoxifen to keep the cancer from coming back.
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The chemical compound in the abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and ovarian cancers, researchers found.
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A newer drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have had the disease, doctors are reporting.
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NEW YORK  - Removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy) plus tamoxifen, as adjuvant, or "add-on" therapy, significantly improves survival in premenopausal women with operable breast cancer, a study indicates.
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After surgery for early-stage  breast cancer, women may be treated with tamoxifen for 5 years.  After that point, treatment with Aromasin significantly  improves survival, according to a new study.
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WASHINGTON -- Women with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option yesterday with the approval of a novel drug -- but how much benefit it offers is unclear.
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A new type of cancer drug being  developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., when combined with a  standard chemotherapy, was significantly better than  chemotherapy alone in delaying progression of advanced breast  cancer, a researcher said on Sunday.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new Canadian study may finally explain how a key compound found in the U.S.-banned insecticide DDT accelerates the growth of breast cancer tumors.
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Dec. 8, 2004 (San Antonio) -- Postmenopausal women with breast cancer fare better if they are treated with a new class of hormone drugs called aromatase inhibitors than if they are given tamoxifen, the standard
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A drug can treat  menopausal symptoms among women on tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer, say scientists.
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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.
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A drug currently used against advanced breast cancer may provide better protection against recurrence or spreading than standard medication for post-menopausal women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and independent researchers said Wednesday.