Cancer Drug Still an Option for Allergic Patients
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NEW YORK  - Carboplatin, a drug used to  treat ovarian and other cancers, can be given to allergic  patients provided that they are slowly desensitized to the  drug. This is important for doctors to remember since  carboplatin is an effective drug, but up to 30 percent of  patients treated it will develop an allergy.
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Men with advanced prostate cancer that is not responding to hormone therapy could benefit from a drug now used to treat breast cancer, say scientists.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved Novartis AGâs Femara (letrozole) tablets for use in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who have already received post-surgery tamoxifen therapy for five years.
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An acne-like rash is good news for colon  cancer patients because it shows that a targeted therapy for  the disease is working, Belgian scientists said on Thursday.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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An acne-like rash may be good news for colon cancer patients because it shows that a targeted therapy for the disease is working, Belgian scientists said on Thursday.
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A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn&#39;t find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK  - When it comes to the price tag  for the newest biotechology drugs for cancer and other  hard-to-treat diseases, the sky is likely to remain the limit,  insurers, drugmakers and industry watchers say.
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A newer drug prevented far more breast cancers from recurring in older women than the old standby tamoxifen and with far fewer side effects, doctors said Wednesday, citing a new study.
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[Health India]: Washington, Nov 4 : A new study by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has found that some allergic conditions could increase your risk of suffering from blood cancer as an adult.
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Arthritis drugs like Celebrex and the recently withdrawn Vioxx may boost the immune system's ability to attack brain tumors, and possibly other types of cancer, researchers said on Friday.
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A drug currently prescribed to combat advanced breast cancer can now be used to help prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, the US Food and Drug Administration ruled Friday.
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A Merck &amp; Co. Inc. drug received federal approval Friday to treat a slow-growing cancer that affects infection-fighting white blood cells.
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An apple skin a day could keep colon cancer away, and a common gout drug might also help, two new studies claim. The findings about the drug allopurinol are too preliminary to be applied to patients.
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SAN ANTONIO Dec 8, 2004 - 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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A drug that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported on Thursday.
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A panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended approval for Ilex Oncology Inc.'s new drug Clolar for use against one type of leukemia but not against another.