Drug offers breast cancer hope
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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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WITH nearly three new cases of breast cancer detected in Singapore every day, a drug that greatly reduces the risk of the disease recurring after surgery is giving such women hope.
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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 breast cancer drug is so effective it will see the end of the current &quot;gold standard&quot; treatment Tamoxifen, researchers said today.
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Harvard researchers are developing the first drug that specifically targets cancer stem cells.
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In women who've been treated for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the drug works equally well in black and white women.
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A new type of cancer drug being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., when combined with a standard chemotherapy, was significantly better than chemotherapy alone in delaying progression of advanced breast cancer, a researcher said on Sunday.
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A drug called anastrozole is better at preventing relapses among certain breast cancer patients than tamoxifen, the current standard treatment, research presented at a medical conference Wednesday shows.
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SAN ANTONIO -- 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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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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(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 breast cancer drug could save 1,300 lives a year if more widely used in the UK, research suggests.
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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 Food and Drug Administration agreed Friday 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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THURSDAY, Feb 10 (HealthDay News) -- A compound derived from a rare South American plant shows promise as a treatment for breast cancer, according to a University of Virginia Health System study.
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A chemical used to abort pregnancy could fight breast and ovarian cancer, say scientists.
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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.