Combo therapy with Tykerb fights brain metastases
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A combination drug treatment that includes Tykerb, know generically as lapatinib, appears to be able to fight breast cancer that has spread to the brain, GlaxoSmithKline Plc announced Sunday.
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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 recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.
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Treating patients who have glioblastoma multiforme, a lethal type of brain tumor, with an experimental vaccine seems to sensitize the tumor to subsequent chemotherapy, according to a study by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s Tykerb (lapatinib) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat advanced breast cancer when other cancer drugs haven&#39;t succeeded, the agency said Tuesday.
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GlaxoSmithKline's new breast cancer pill Tykerb might help prevent the growth of tumors in some people with a hard-to-treat form of the disease, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Scientists have identified a type of stem cell that appears to fuel the growth of brain tumours. The Canadian and American researchers say their discovery could lead to new ways of targeting cancer cells.
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Merck KGaA's cancer drug cilengitide  showed encouraging results in a Phase I study in the treatment  of glioma, an aggressive form of brain tumor, the German drugs  and chemicals group said on Monday.
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A drug that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time among patients with advanced disease.
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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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US researchers have found a way to use an antibiotic to correct a flaw in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal death process.
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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.
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An ingredient in marijuana may be useful for treating brain cancers, say researchers.
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A third of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative therapies, research suggests.
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A common antibiotic is able to turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments, say researchers.
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More clinical trials are needed to look into the benefits of complementary therapies for cancer patients, a leading scientist said.
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Cancer Research UK scientists in Oxford have found a new way to make prostate cancer succumb more readily to currently used treatments.