Certain Type of Breast Cancer Drug Shows Better Result in Study
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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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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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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18  (HealthDayNews) -- A new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer, researchers report.
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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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NEW YORK  - In women who've been treated  for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent  recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the  drug works equally well in black and white women.
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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 - Arimidex, one of a new class of breast cancer drugs, has clearly beaten standard treatment tamoxifen at preventing breast cancer from returning in a 5-year study, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Marin physicians say they are already prescribing a new breast cancer drug that shows better results at preventing the return of disease in older women, as announced yesterday in a 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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Some types of chemotherapy are known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the risks, French researchers report.
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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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Scientific advances have enabled better diagnosis and treatment for women with breast cancer, according to studies presented at the world&#39;s premier conference on cancer.
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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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Thousands of women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors said yesterday.
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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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A drug called anastrozole is better at preventing relapses among certain breast cancer patients than tamoxifen, the current standard treatment, research presented at a medical conference Wednesday shows.
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A new way to accurately predict how individual breast cancer patients will react to the anticancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) has been identified by researchers at the Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.