Breakthrough drug increases 5-year survival rate of women
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The observance of Breast Cancer Month this October continues to bring hope to thousands of patients. Medical findings have unearthed risk factors and symptoms that would aid early cancer detection.
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PHILADELPHIA - Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.
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A newer drug prevented far more breast cancers from recurring in older women than the old standby tamoxifen and with far fewer side effects, doctors said Wednesday, citing a new study.
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In women who&#39;ve been treated for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the
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Women who switch from the breast cancer pill tamoxifen to a newer class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors live longer, Italian researchers reported on Monday.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Switching to newer breast cancer drugs, called aromatase inhibitors, after two to three years of treatment with tamoxifen may extend disease-free survival and slightly reduce the risk of death in women who've been treated for early stage disease, an international study finds.
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Five years ago, Portland&#39;s Dr. Brian Druker told a gathering of blood scientists about a few dozen cancer patients who were taking an obscure new drug with surprising success.
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CHICAGO -- For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival for people with liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
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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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Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.
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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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A drug now used to treat breast cancer could help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer, say scientists.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Adding a second drug to tamoxifen, the breast cancer drug used successfully for more than 20 years, helps it retain its full strength, scientists at the U.S. National Cancer Institute report.
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A class of hormone-blocking drugs called aromatase inhibitors was more effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence in women past menopause than was tamoxifen, a medication now prescribed
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A drug currently prescribed to combat advanced breast cancer can now be used to help prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, the US Food and Drug Administration ruled Friday.
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ATLANTA, June 20 -- Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain women who start taking them in their 50s.
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SAN ANTONIO -- Doctors say a newer class of drugs is showing better results in preventing the return of breast cancer than the more traditional drug, tamoxifen.