In 2nd Trial, Avastin Is Found Effective as Breast Cancer Treatment
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The results from the new clinical trial could increase the chances that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug for that use.
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NEW YORK  - An analysis of the results of several studies confirm previous reports suggesting that chemotherapy offers little or no survival benefits for young women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers and, if given, it should not be the sole second-phase, or "adjuvant" therapy.
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Cancer patients treated with Genentech Inc.&#39;s colon cancer drug bevacizumab (Avastin) along with the chemotherapy regimen FOLFOX4 lived longer than patients treated with the chemotherapy alone in a late-stage clinical
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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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TUESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A compound designed to block growth hormone, coupled with a standard chemotherapy drug, successfully treated human breast cancer in mice.
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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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The ATAC (Arimidex, tamoxifen, alone or in combination) trial is the largest and longest-running early breast cancer treatment 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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New data, from the landmark ATAC (âArimidex&#39;, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination) trial, is presented today at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, USA.
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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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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 drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast-cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.
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A fast-acting pathway used by the drug tamoxifen to kill damaged breast cells before they become cancerous has been identified by scientists at Duke University.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older 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 widely used to treat H.I.V. infection may also be effective in fighting cancer, a new study suggests, and a human trial of the medicine is already under way.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and should now be the first drug used to treat
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Introgen Therapeutics Inc. on Thursday said a mid-stage trial showed that its experimental cancer drug Advexin improved treatment of advanced breast cancer and aided with the removal of tumors.