Dual Drug Therapy Shows Promise Against Breast Cancer
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TUESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A compound designed to block growth hormone, coupled with a standard chemotherapy drug, successfully treated human breast cancer in mice.
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British women who have had breast cancer can now have a new treatment which has been found to prevent the disease returning and to prolong survival.
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A new drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have reported the disease, doctors are reporting.
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A drug used to treat breast cancer would not be good for preventing the tumours occurring in the first place, say researchers.
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London - Women with breast cancer were offered new hope this week by research hailed as the biggest advance in treatment for the disease for 30 years.
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer treatment trials that are funded by drug companies are more likely to show positive results than studies sponsored by other sources, new research suggests.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Women with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option Tuesday with the approval of a novel drug _ but how much benefit it offers is unclear.
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The US drug agency agreed to allow a drug currently used against advanced breast cancer to be prescribed to prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease.
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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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SAN ANTONIO Dec 8, 2004 - A newer drug clearly outperforms tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning and should become the first-choice treatment for most women who have had the disease, doctors are reporting.
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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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(National-NBC) Nov. 30, 2004 - A medicine used to make a woman&#39;s bones stronger may also cut the risk of breast cancer in half.
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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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The results of studies released today show a new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer.
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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.
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An experimental new treatment developed in Toronto could be big news for women battling early stage breast cancer. It&#39;s a one-shot dose of radiation that literally treats breast cancer from the inside out.