Drug 'cuts long-term cancer risk'
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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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Statins -- those hard-working, cholesterol-fighting drugs -- may also cut the risk of developing cancer by as much as 25 percent, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Birth control pills can protect women against ovarian cancer for 30 years or longer after they stop taking them and have so far prevented 100,000 ovarian cancer deaths worldwide, British researchers said on Thursday.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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FRIDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- A daily dose of 300 milligrams of aspirin taken for 10 years can cut colon cancer risk by as much as 74 percent, a new British study suggests.
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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 in the US said yesterday, citing a new study.
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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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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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LONDON -- Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said. British researchers found that women taking the pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, and that the risk remained low more than 30 years...
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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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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.
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A drug currently used against advanced breast cancer may provide better protection against recurrence or spreading than standard medication for post-menopausal women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and independent researchers said Wednesday.
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Older women with breast cancer are being encouraged to use a new drug which is better at preventing re-occurrence of the disease, has fewer side effects - but costs Â£1,000 a year instead of Â£30.
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A long-running French study finds that a low-dose cocktail of antioxidants reduces the incidence of cancer in men but not in women.
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SAN ANTONIO - Dec. 9, 2004 â-esults of an ogoing study show that a new class of drug called aromatase inhibitors can cut the rate of breast cancer recurrence by 76 percent in certain older women.
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The contraceptive pill may cut a woman's overall risk of cancer - but only if used for less than eight years.
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GlaxoSmithKline's new breast cancer pill Tykerb might help prevent the growth of tumors in some people with a hard-to-treat form of the disease, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.