AstraZeneca Says Arimidex More Effective Than Tamoxifen
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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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Older women suffering from breast cancer should take a newer drug in place of the tried-and-true tamoxifen, researchers from the US and Britain have announced.
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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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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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Novartis AG said on Wednesday that its  breast cancer pill Femara is more effective than the current  standard treatment tamoxifen in reducing the risk that the  cancer will return to older women after surgery.
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The drug toremifene, used to treat breast cancer in women, has been found to also reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in men at risk for the disease.
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Roche Holding AG on Monday said new data showed cancer drug MabThera significantly extended survival and cured more patients with aggressive lymphoma than chemotherapy alone.
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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.
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Tamoxifen reduces the risk of breast cancer returning long after women stop taking the drug, research suggests.
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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug, Arimidex, and others in its class outperform the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing recurrence in older women.
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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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Roche Holding AG on Monday said new data  showed cancer drug MabThera significantly extended survival and  cured more patients with aggressive lymphoma than chemotherapy  alone.
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A drug can treat  menopausal symptoms among women on tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer, say scientists.
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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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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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Raloxifene (Evista) continues to be associated with more than a 50% reduction in breast cancer incidence beyond the first 4 years of treatment, according to a new study in the December 1 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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A newer drug called anastrozole could replace tamoxifen as the standard drug for postmenopausal breast cancer patients whose cancer is fueled by estrogen, a new study finds.