Cancer drugs usage 'sees boost'
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More patients are receiving cancer drugs, according to a report by the UK government's cancer tsar.
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It may be possible to save more lives by reversing drug resistance in lung cancer patients, say scientists.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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Two experimental drugs are showing strong early results in treating patients with a blood cancer that has grown resistant to the most commonly prescribed medicine, doctors reported here on Sunday.
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A drug that helps the immune system attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time.
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Scientists at London's Kew Gardens say dandelions could be the source of a life-saving drug to fight off cancer.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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The effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be rapidly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient's blood, according to a study.
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Use of pharmaceutical products has risen to record levels in the US, with almost half the population using at least one prescription medicine regularly, according to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Marin physicians say they are already prescribing a new breast cancer drug that shows better results at preventing the return of disease in older women, as announced yesterday in a study.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- The high price of the leukemia drug Gleevec is offset by the expected increase in survival rates among patients who take it, say two Duke University studies in the December issue of Cancer.
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An updated analysis of data from studies of anemia drugs used with cancer treatments showed that they increase risk of death and blood clots, an industry newsletter reported on Friday.
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Researchers claim chemicals used by plants to combat fungal infection could benefit cancer patients.
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A new technology that counts cancer cells in the blood helps predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more reliably than established methods, researchers reported.
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By taking a new chemotherapy drug, men with advanced, incurable cancer of the prostate can prolong their lives by several months, a new Canadian-led international study has found.
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The presence or absence of a protein in   lung cancer cells can help doctors predict whether chemotherapy   will help patients live longer after surgery, European   researchers reported on Wednesday.