Breast Cancer New breast cancer drug may improve survival
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LONDON - Arimidex, one of a new class of breast cancer drugs, has clearly beaten standard treatment tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning in a 5-year study, researchers said on Wednesday.
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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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NEW YORK  - Women with breast cancer who  take tamoxifen are less likely to have a heart attack than  women with other types of cancer who are not taking the drug,  according to a new report.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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NEW YORK  - 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 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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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug, Arimidex, and others in its class outperform the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing recurrence in older women.
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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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A drug now used to treat breast cancer could help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer, say scientists.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A new genetic test that helps assess the risk of tumor recurrence and long-term survival for patients with relatively high-risk breast cancer has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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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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Women whose breast cancer is detected by a mammography have a better prognosis than women whose cancer is detected through other means, a new study finds.
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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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Older women with breast cancer are being encouraged to use a new drug which is better at preventing re-occurrence of the disease, has fewer side effects - but costs Â£1,000 a year instead of Â£30.
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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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The results of studies released today show a new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer.