New Drug Shows Promise in Cutting Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
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A new type of drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of a recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.
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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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Arimidex has been shown to reduce the recurrence of breast cancer in women better than tamoxifen, the standard breast cancer therapy for postmenopausal women.
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Breast cancer survivors now have another drug that can help keep the disease from coming back. Femara is prescribed to fight advanced breast cancer.
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Gene mutations linked to breast cancer may pose less danger than previously believed, a new study shows.
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The US drug agency agreed 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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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 breast cancer drug is significantly better at preventing the spread and return of the disease than the current treatment, according to a new study in the Lancet medical journal.
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A new drug may give older women with early stages of breast cancer a better chance of beating the disease and stopping it returning and spreading.
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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.
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NEW YORK  - After approximately 8 years, postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer who received (Arimidex), generically known as anastrazole, had a lower risk of recurrence than women taking tamoxifen, investigators reported at the annual meeting of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
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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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A new test invented by a Redwood City medical laboratory can accurately predict which women are likely to have a recurrence of breast cancer and whether they need to undergo debilitating chemotherapy to avoid it.
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A breast cancer drug could save 1,300 lives a year if more widely used in the UK, research suggests.
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Marin physicians say they are already prescribing a new breast cancer drug that shows better results at preventing the return of disease in older women, as announced yesterday in a study.
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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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British women who have had breast cancer can now have a new treatment which has been found to prevent the disease returning and to prolong survival.