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Landmark study confirms chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemotherapy generally improves survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to a landmark study led by Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola University Health System.


Researchers say breast cancer survival improves Herceptin used with chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using Herceptin with chemotherapy, instead of after, clearly improves treatment of women with HER2+ breast cancer, and should be the new standard of care, says a Mayo Clinic researcher who led what is regarded to be a key ...


Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in Sweden are reporting for the first time that a group of drugs used to treat heart failure shows promise for fighting colon cancer. The study is in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. Colon cancer ...


Disease-free, overall survival inferior for black women with HR-positive breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Black women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer had worse disease-free and overall survival, according to data presented at the CTRC-AACR Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 9-13, 2009.


Antibody-guided drug shows encouraging activity in metastatic breast cancer

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created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new antibody-drug compound shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from ...



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