New drug to beat breast cancer
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Thousands of women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors said yesterday.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen.
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TORONTO - A standard treatment used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer should be replaced by a newer drug, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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Women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors have suggested.
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A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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A class of hormone-blocking drugs called aromatase inhibitors was more effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence in women past menopause than was tamoxifen, a medication now prescribed
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The drug toremifene, used to treat breast cancer in women, has been found to also reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in men at risk for the disease.
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The US drug agency agreed to allow a drug currently used against advanced breast cancer to be prescribed to prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease.
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A new drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have reported the disease, doctors are reporting.
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Arimidex has been shown to reduce the recurrence of breast cancer in women better than tamoxifen, the standard breast cancer therapy for postmenopausal women.
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A new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer, researchers report. The test, which looks for malignant cells in the blood, gives
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A new type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many 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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NEW YORK  - In women who've been treated  for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent  recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the  drug works equally well in black and white women.
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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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A new type of breast cancer drug is  clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many 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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A new type of drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of a recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.