New Cancer Drug Extends Survival
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The new Genentech, Inc., cancer drug Avastin appears to extend survival for patients with colorectal cancer by nearly two months, US National Cancer Institute researchers have concluded.
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A drug called Tarceva boosts the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs to prolong the lives of people with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to the drug&#39;s manufacturer, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche.
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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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Genentech Inc. and Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG said Monday that a recent study showed their colon cancer drug Avastin significantly extended patient survival when combined with an oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy drug.
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A new breast cancer drug is significantly better at preventing the spread and return of the disease than the current treatment, according to a new study in the Lancet medical journal.
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Doctors researching breast cancer say a new drug has had "exciting" results.
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Adding Herceptin to hormonal therapy  increases significantly the length of time certain women with  advanced breast cancer live without their disease progressing,  researchers said on Monday.
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A pill that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported on Thursday.
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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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Indianapolis, November 1 (ots/PRNewswire) - New data presented today confirm that advanced lung cancer patients can look forward to better-quality survival when treated with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed), a newly approved anticancer agent in the European Union
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ATLANTA - Oct. 4, 2004 â-en with prostate cancer might survive longer by regularly taking aspirin, a new study suggests. While there have been other studies showing regular use of aspirin or other non
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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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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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Adding Herceptin to hormonal therapy increases significantly the length of time certain women with advanced breast cancer live without their disease progressing, researchers said on Monday.
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By Dan Vergano Scientists have inched closer to one day developing a drug that will extend the human life span. They're still not close, mind you, but closer.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Switching to newer breast cancer drugs, called aromatase inhibitors, after two to three years of treatment with tamoxifen may extend disease-free survival and slightly reduce the risk of death in women who've been treated for early stage disease, an international study finds.
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A drug that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time among patients with advanced disease.