Taking Measure of Cancer Drugs
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- A new screening technique to search for genes that change patients' response to cancer drugs and other medications has been developed by scientists at Washington University Medical Center.
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SATURDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- A new drug that targets pancreatic cancer in two ways is being tested by oncologists at the University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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By Tampone, Kevin  CICERO - Cancer research is daunting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the massive number of substances that might be effective in future drugs.
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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 test currently available on the market can predict which breast cancer patients are at risk for their cancer to recur, which could be a vital tool for deciding if further treatment, such as chemotherapy will be useful or safely avoided.
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A new analysis finds that clinical trials of breast-cancer treatments by drugmakers show positive results far more often than non-industry trials. Why the difference?
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Shorter courses of chemotherapy taken with Roche Holding AG's cancer drug MabThera are as effective as longer courses in elderly patients with aggressive lymphoma, a study in The Lancet Oncology showed.
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A cancer patients increasingly embrace alternative therapies, oncologists are calling for well-designed clinical trials to determine if they are helpful or harmful.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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A new test that counts cancer cells in the bloodstreams of patients with advanced breast cancer best tells whether treatment is working, according to a study led by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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A small study shows its cancer treatment is comparable to others in terms of usefulness. Safety data is unknown.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A new test may help identify which breast cancer patients are most likely to benefit from chemotherapy.
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Consumer Reports' effort to rate drugs offers a lesson to pharmaceutical companies.
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Blocking a specific enzyme may be enough to check the spread of cancer in the body, researchers believe.
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Scientists say the effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be quickly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient&#39;s blood.
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A test can help doctors determine which lung cancer patients will respond to a leading chemotherapy drug and avoid ineffective treatments and side effects in those who don't, Spanish researchers said on Monday.
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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.