Roche says cancer drug MabThera extends survival
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Roche Holding AG on Monday said new data  showed cancer drug MabThera significantly extended survival and  cured more patients with aggressive lymphoma than chemotherapy  alone.
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche reported Wednesday a better-than-expected 2007 net profit of 11.4 billion Swiss francs (10.4 billion dollars, 7.1 billion euros), boosted by cancer drug sales.
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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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A drug already used to treat kidney cancer became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a clinical trial, adding about three months to survival compared to a placebo, according to a study released on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - The addition of radiation  therapy to chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery  "substantially" improves survival, according to a 20-year  followup analysis of a British Columbia trial.
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A kidney cancer drug became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a large study, adding about three months to survival compared with a placebo, according to a data released on Monday.
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TORONTO -- Doctors can prolong the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer for several months and improve their quality of life with a new-generation drug treatment, a Canadian-led international study has found.
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Women who switch from the breast cancer pill tamoxifen to a newer class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors live longer, Italian researchers reported on Monday.
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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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Women with advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option Tuesday with the approval of a novel drug made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Profits at Roche Holding AG leapt 34 percent in 2006 on strong sales of cancer treatments Herceptin and Avastin and flu drug Tamiflu but worries over future margins hit the stock on Wednesday.
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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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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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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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Genentech's cancer drug Avastin helped patients with advanced kidney cancer live twice as long as those on standard therapy alone, according to a study released on Saturday.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a cancer drug made by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients who have undergone chemotherapy.
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Genentech Inc.  on Monday said its colon cancer drug Avastin extended the life of patients when used in combination with a chemotherapy regimen called FOLFOX4 more than the chemotherapy alone in a late stage clinical trial.