With a Costly Cancer Drug, the Dose Appears Optional
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Genentech said a low dose of its cancer drug worked just as well as a more expensive high dose in a clinical trial.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations, as just a small number of eligible patients
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The move appeared to be a competitive strategy and based on public concerns about the costs of new cancer drugs.
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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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Thailand's new government could pay for four cancer drugs instead of overriding their international patents, Health Minister Chaiya Sasomsap said on Wednesday, fearing possible trade sanctions against his country. The cancer medicines targeted by the previous military-appointed government for compulsory licenses, which allow countries to make or buy cheap, copycat versions of drugs, would cost $24-$27 million a year.
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Patients who develop the most common  kind of primary malignant brain tumor are sometimes given drugs  they may not need and deprived of others that might help,  medical researchers said on Tuesday.
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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 Tuesday with the approval of a novel drug _ but how much benefit it offers is unclear.
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Cheaper versions of biologic drugs can be made safely, a U.S. Senate panel heard on Thursday, but brand-name makers of the pricey therapies for cancer and other diseases warned substitutes could be risky.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it.
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BOSTON Elderly women in treatment for early-stage breast cancer may safely forgo radiation therapy - which is expensive, inconvenient and often difficult - without substantially increasing the prospects for the return of the disease, researchers reported
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About half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma, (NHL), cancer of the lymph glands, are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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The market might overlook the drug maker's promising programs.
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Radiation treatments routinely given  after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be  necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug  tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined dramatically from 1991 to 2002, suggesting that better oversight and less-toxic medicines have made cancer research safer, a study found.
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A pill that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported on Thursday.