Breast Cancer Chemo May Increase Stroke Risk
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In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceutical Inc.'s  key cancer drug Nexavar significantly raises the risk of high  blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Stroke survivors who stop taking prescribed daily aspirin triple the risk of another stroke within a month, research suggests.
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A study in mice suggests a new way of  starving tumors of their blood supply may cause heart attacks  and strokes, raising concerns about this type of cancer  therapy, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Taking tamoxifen to treat breast cancer won't increase your risk of stroke.
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NEW YORK  - Cancer greatly increases the  risk that the patients will develop a blood clot in a vein  (venous thrombosis), especially in recently diagnosed patients,  patients with cancer that has spread to distant sites  (metastases), and those with certain genetic mutations,  according to Dutch researchers. While anticoagulant therapy  might be beneficial, they say, the associated increased risk of  bleeding has to be considered.
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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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In women with breast cancer, the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent, depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at diagnosis, new research shows.
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Arthritis drugs like Celebrex and  the recently withdrawn Vioxx may boost the immune system's  ability to attack brain tumors, and possibly other types of  cancer, researchers said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Some types of chemotherapy are  known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most  women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the  risks, French researchers report.
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The move follows recent studies suggesting that the medications might cause heart attacks or make cancer worse in some patients.
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A new way to accurately predict how individual breast cancer patients will react to the anticancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) has been identified by researchers at the Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.
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NEW YORK  - Cigarette smoking dramatically increases the risk that a woman who has undergone radiation treatment for breast cancer will develop lung cancer later on, a new study shows.
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Chemotherapy causes changes in the brain's metabolism and blood flow that can last as long as 10 years, a discovery that may explain the mental fog and confusion that affect many cancer survivors, researchers said on Thursday.
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Researchers said the increased risk of stroke was due to the reduced blood flow to the brain which occurred during a migraine. Past research had shown that pill-users with a history of migraine have twice
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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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FRIDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Concerns about infertility resulting from breast cancer therapy influenced treatment decisions in nearly one-third of young patients, according to a study published in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.