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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Doctors researching breast cancer say a new drug has had "exciting" results.
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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 have suggested.
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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 type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many women and should now be the first drug used
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A combination drug treatment that includes Tykerb, know generically as lapatinib, appears to be able to fight breast cancer that has spread to the brain, GlaxoSmithKline Plc announced Sunday.
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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
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GlaxoSmithKline won permission yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration to sell a tumor-growth inhibitor called Tykerb to treat 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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A drug that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time among patients with advanced disease.
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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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A drug can treat  menopausal symptoms among women on tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer, say scientists.
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Harvard researchers are developing the first drug that specifically targets cancer stem cells.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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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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A drug currently used against advanced breast cancer may provide better protection against recurrence or spreading than standard medication for post-menopausal women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and independent researchers said Wednesday.