A Better Breast Cancer Drug?
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Dec. 8, 2004 (San Antonio) -- Postmenopausal women with breast cancer fare better if they are treated with a new class of hormone drugs called aromatase inhibitors than if they are given tamoxifen, the standard
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12/8/04- the drug tamoxifen has long been the 1st line of therapy for preventing the return of breast cancer, but researchers say another drug may be more effective and could soon become the 1st choice treatment for post-menopausal women who&#39;ve had the
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A breast cancer drug could save 1,300 lives a year if more widely used in the UK, research suggests.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Certain breast cancer patients who switch to the aromatase inhibitor drug anastrozole (Arimidex) after two to three years of treatment with tamoxifen live longer and are more likely to remain cancer-free, German researchers report.
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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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Women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors have suggested.
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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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MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- A newer generation of breast cancer medications added months to the lives of patients with the most advanced form of the disease, according to the first study of its kind.
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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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Thousands of women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors said yesterday.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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A new type of breast cancer drug is  superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and  should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S. and  British researchers said on Wednesday.
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Older women with early breast cancer should be put on a different drug to the current gold standard, say experts.
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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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A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and should now be the first drug used to treat
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THE biggest breast cancer trial ever conducted has shown some of the most exciting results for 30 years. Older women with the disease should be switched from tamoxifen, the âgold standard
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Older women with early breast cancer should take a new drug to cut the chance of the disease returning and spreading, it is claimed.