Three Chemo Drugs Better Than Two for Advanced Head/Neck Cancers
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The addition of the chemotherapy drug, docetaxel, to the standard two-drug regimen used for head and neck cancers improved the efficacy of the treatment while reducing the toxicity, two new studies report.
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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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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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NEW YORK  - 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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Drug therapy given before the  primary chemotherapy for breast cancer does not appear to  worsen mental processes, or &quot;cognitive function,&quot; German  investigators report in the journal Cancer. Suspicions that it  does may have been influenced by cases of mental decline that  occurred before treatment began.
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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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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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Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The anti-cancer drug Gleevec, highly touted for slowing the progression of chronic myeloid leukemia, also appears to stall a rare kind of skin cancer, a new study finds.
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A pill that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported on Thursday.
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SUNDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- It's clear that chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery increases survival rates. But many older women aren't being offered this potentially lifesaving treatment.
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- The drug Gleevec has proven a lifesaver for people with a blood cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, a growing number of CML patients have cancers resistant to the medication.
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SALT LAKE CITY - Learning whether or not one method of surgery works better than another for patients with chondrosarcoma, a cancer of the cartilage, is the goal of a new clinical study opening this week at multiple sites around the US and Canada, with
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About half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma, (NHL), cancer of the lymph glands, are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that
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A drug already used to treat kidney cancer became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a clinical trial, adding about three months to survival compared to a placebo, according to a study released on Monday.
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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 yesterday with the approval of a novel drug -- but how much benefit it offers is unclear.