Herceptin, Arimidex combo helps in breast cancer
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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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A class of hormone-blocking drugs was more effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence in women past menopause than was a medication now prescribed by many doctors.
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The results of the five-year trial involving 9,300 women, the largest ever on breast cancer, show that women taking the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole (brand name Arimidex) were less likely to have their cancer spread.
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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.
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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug outperforms the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing the disease from recurring.
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Herceptin could cut the need for mastectomies in breast cancer patients, research suggests.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- The Eli Lilly drug Evista (raloxifene) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal at high risk for the disease and among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
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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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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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The ATAC (Arimidex, tamoxifen, alone or in combination) trial is the largest and longest-running early breast cancer treatment study.
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NEW YORK  - Premenopausal women who suffer  from breast pain may find relief with a drug called goserelin,  or Zoladex, which blocks the female hormone estrogen, UK  researchers report.
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A fast-acting pathway used by the drug tamoxifen to kill damaged breast cells before they become cancerous has been identified by scientists at Duke University.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- A group of drugs called aromatase inhibitors should be used after surgery to treat postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer, new guidelines recommend.
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SAN ANTONIO - Dec. 9, 2004 â-esults of an ogoing study show that a new class of drug called aromatase inhibitors can cut the rate of breast cancer recurrence by 76 percent in certain older women.
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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 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 new drug is better than tamoxifen at preventing breast cancers from coming back and should immediately become the first-line treatment for women with certain tumours, researchers say.