News tagged with oncology drugs
FDA approves cancer treatment for dogs
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug made specifically to treat cancer in dogs.
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Chemotherapy plus targeted therapies shows improved survival in advance-stage lung cancer patients
Nov 13, 2008 |
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The combination of traditional chemotherapy agents with targeted therapies called monoclonal antibodies showed no safety concerns and improved survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer according to a study ...
Veterinary oncologists advance cancer drugs for humans and pets
Apr 15, 2009 |
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As more pet owners are choosing to treat their pets' cancers through advanced medicine, veterinarians gain valuable knowledge about the progression and treatment of cancers in humans through pet trials of new drugs. To help ...
How much is life worth? The $440 billion question
Jun 29, 2009 |
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The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the U.S. that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according ...
Errors involving medications common in outpatient cancer treatment
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications, according to a new study led ...
Brain tumors: New therapy surprisingly successful
Mar 06, 2009 |
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The combination of two drugs produces a critical improvement in the treatment of certain brain tumours. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Bonn University working in co-operation with German and Swiss colleagues ...
Small company working toward what could be a breakthrough: a drug that kills only cancer cells
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Maybe Hugh McTavish wasn't so tough after all. Seven years ago, doctors told McTavish he needed chemotherapy to treat his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. McTavish, then a 40-year-old patent attorney, was young and fit, so he asked ...
Less Toxic Drug Prolongs Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that a less toxic, solvent-free chemotherapy drug more effectively prevents the progression of metastatic breast cancer and ...
Long-term health and social outcomes for neuroblastoma survivors
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Survivors of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are eight times more likely to have chronic health conditions, less likely to be married, and more likely to have lower incomes than their siblings, according to a study published ...
Study identifies causes of bone loss in breast cancer survivors
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Osteoporosis is a growing concern among breast cancer survivors and their doctors, because certain cancer drugs can cause bone loss.
New treatment shows promise against recurrent gynecologic cancers
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(BRONX, NY) - Recurrent and metastatic endometrial and ovarian cancers can be notoriously difficult to treat: They have spread to other organs and typically have developed resistance to chemotherapy; and patients already ...
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