High-Dose Chemo Provides Little Benefit to Breast Cancer Patients
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THURSDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) -- High-dose chemotherapy has only a minimal effect on survival in breast cancer patients with node-positive disease, new research shows.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more
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TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Switching the order in which treatments were administered did not improve survival for patients with aggressive inflammatory breast cancer, a new study found.
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Approximately half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma (NHL) are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that is recommended
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A genetic profiling test already on the market accurately predicts which breast cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy and which won&#39;t, giving
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Severe side effects keep many patients with aggressive but potentially curable non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma from getting the recommended dose of chemotherapy - a problem that could hurt
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Taking tamoxifen to treat breast cancer won&#39;t increase your risk of stroke. However, a report on that finding, which appears in the Oct. 20 issue of the
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The effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be rapidly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient's blood, according to a study.
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NEW YORK  - Even among relatively young women with early-stage breast cancer, the side effects of therapy can vary by age, according to a new study.
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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 drug used to treat breast cancer would not be good for preventing the tumours occurring in the first place, say researchers.
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Older women with early breast cancer should take a new drug to cut the chance of the disease returning and spreading, it is claimed.
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Thousands of breast cancer patients each year could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the disease, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - The addition of radiation  therapy to chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery  "substantially" improves survival, according to a 20-year  followup analysis of a British Columbia trial.
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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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Concerns about side effects discourage many women at high risk for breast cancer from taking tamoxifen, says a study in the Dec. 14 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Breast cancer patients are not receiving the best follow-up care because guidelines are lacking, claim experts.