News tagged with hormonal therapy
Blood vessels might predict prostate cancer behavior
Nov 03, 2009 |
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A diagnosis of prostate cancer raises the question for patients and their physicians as to how the tumor will behave. Will it grow quickly and aggressively and require continuous treatment, or slowly, allowing therapy and ...
Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk of an aggressive, hard to treat type of second breast cancer
Aug 25, 2009 |
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While long-term tamoxifen use among breast cancer survivors decreases their risk of developing the most common, less aggressive type of second breast cancer, such use is associated with a more than four-fold increased risk ...
Low-income breast cancer patients skipping hormonal therapy, increasing their risks
May 18, 2009 |
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Many low-income women are failing to take the hormonal therapy prescribed as part of their breast cancer treatment, possibly lowering their survival rates, according to a study led by a researcher in the Duke Comprehensive ...
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Just 4 months of hormone therapy can delay prostate cancer growth by up to 8 years
Jan 02, 2008 |
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[B]Early, short course of hormonal therapy may allow patients to live longer[/B] Alexandria, VA—Researchers report that just four months of hormonal therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed can ...
Combined molecular-targeted and hormonal therapies offer promise in treating ovarian cancer
May 08, 2007 |
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A combination of molecular-targeted therapy and hormonal therapy may be the most promising area of research for those seeking an effective treatment for ovarian cancer, according to a new review in the International Journal of ...
Prostate cancer patients disease free after 5 years likely to be disease free after 10 years
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, according to a study in the July 1 issue of the International Journal of ...
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer does not appear to increase cardiac deaths
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Treating prostate cancer patients with drugs that block hormonal activity does not appear to increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, according to a study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. ...
Hormone therapy raises cancer risk
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Menopausal women who take hormone combinations for their symptoms are more likely to get an uncommon type of breast cancer much earlier than experts believed.
What Causes Irritability In Menopause?
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Irritability is frequently the main presenting complaint of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women; yet, studies specifically researching on irritability in this population are lacking.
Radiation added to hormone therapy increases survival for men with prostate cancer
Sep 22, 2008 |
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For men with locally advanced prostate cancer the addition of radiation treatment to anti-androgen hormone therapy reduces the risk of dying of prostate cancer by 50 percent compared to those who have anti-androgen hormone ...
Study links obesity to elevated risk of ovarian cancer
Jan 05, 2009 |
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A new epidemiological study has found that among women who have never used menopausal hormone therapy, obese women are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women of normal weight. Published in the ...
Glaxo seeks OK to expand breast cancer drug use
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.
HRT-breast cancer risk stays same, regardless of family history
May 19, 2009 |
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The risk of developing breast cancer due to taking hormone replacement therapy appears to be the same for women with a family history of the disease and without a family history, a University of Rochester Medical Center study ...
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