Pfizer Says Melanoma Patients Helped by Drug
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Pfizer Inc. on Tuesday said six  patients with melanoma were all helped by one of the company's  experimental drugs, with their tumors either shrinking or  disappearing or their cancer stabilizing in an early-stage  trial.
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The FDA issues a health advisory for a top Pfizer drug.
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Pfizer Inc. on Friday said patients taking its blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex in a long-term cancer-prevention trial had more than twice the number of fatal or non-fatal heart attacks as those taking a placebo.
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Merck & Co Inc. won U.S. approval for a new drug to treat a rare and slow-growing skin cancer, health officials said on Friday.
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Pfizer Inc.  said on Tuesday  pivotal-stage trials found that adding its experimental HIV  drug maraviroc to a regimen of the best-available drugs  resulted in twice as many patients achieving suppression of the  virus.
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Merck & Co Inc. won U.S. approval  for a new drug to treat a rare and slow-growing skin cancer  called advanced cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), health  officials said on Friday.
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More than a quarter of patients with advanced kidney cancer saw their tumors shrink after treatment with GlaxoSmithKline Plc's pazopanib, a new pill designed to rival Genentech's blockbuster drug Avastin, researchers said on Saturday.
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This morning, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) announced that it had received data from two long-term studies in using its arthritis drug Celebrex to prevent cancer.
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A drug that helps the immune system attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time.
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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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Rates of malignant melanoma and  skin cancer are increased before a diagnosis of Parkinson's  disease, new research suggests. This casts doubt on the notion  that levodopa therapy for Parkinson's disease may contribute to  the observed higher risk of malignant melanoma in such  patients.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - Pfizer Inc's   anti-blood-clotting drug Fragmin effectively prevents blood   clots in cancer patients and warrants wider approval, a U.S.   advisory panel overwhelmingly said on Wednesday.
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A drug company is pledging $10 million to The American Cancer Society &#151; one of the largest gifts in the organization's history &#151; to help provide one-on-one support for cancer patients in U.S. hospitals, the organization announced Wednesday.
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A drug used to treat advanced breast and  lung cancers has been found to prolong the lives of men with  advanced prostate cancer whose tumors don't respond to hormone  therapy, according to two studies published on Wednesday.
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More than a quarter of patients with  advanced kidney cancer saw their tumors shrink after treatment  with GlaxoSmithKline Plc&#39;s pazopanib, a new pill designed to  rival Genentech&#39;s blockbuster drug Avastin, researchers said on  Saturday.
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For people with advanced but localized melanoma, delivering potent chemotherapy to just the limb with the cancer is highly effective both in terms of local disease control and survival, Dutch clinicians report.
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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.