New Leukemia Drugs Work Better, Studies Show
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Next-generation leukemia pills, designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug Gleevec, work even better than doctors had hoped, researchers said on Sunday.
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British scientists have discovered a new  way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat  prostate 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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US regulators said Tuesday they approved a new cancer drug from Genzyme Corp. for treating a type of childhood leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration, in a statement on its
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NEW YORK  - Children being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) seem more able to deal with their treatment if their levels of antioxidants don&#39;t drop too much, new study findings suggest.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Food and Drug Administration is giving hope to children with Leukemia that don&#39;t respond to traditional treatments.
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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug outperforms the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing the disease from recurring.
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When researchers at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discovered a cell mutation that leads to the most common type of leukemia, it was a huge breakthrough.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many 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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MONDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of three chemotherapy drugs -- pentostatin, cyclophosphamide and rituximab --  produced significant clinical response in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to a study presented Sunday at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting.
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Transplanting umbilical cord blood from two separate donors appears to be a safe and effective treatment for leukemia, new research suggests.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News)-- Compounds called growth factors, given to help cancer patients better tolerate chemotherapy and reduce infection, may actually boost their risk for leukemia or a bone marrow disorder later on, new research suggests.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - A panel of medical experts  on Wednesday said Ilex Oncology Inc.'s new drug Clolar was  "reasonably likely" to help children and young adults with a  cancer called acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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NEW YORK  - Certain treatments may affect the scholastic achievement of childhood leukemia survivors, Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. However, many of these treated children do not appear to be disadvantaged.
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Researchers have found that drugs being developed for Alzheimer&#39;s disease can also provide a better treatment for the cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or T-ALL.
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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 a recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.