Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:38:03 +0000
This discovery will help in developing new types of drugs, which will definitely be more effective than the currently used chemotherapy.
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:03:22 +0000
Women with hormone-receptor positive, metastatic breast cancer may take medications for years to help keep their cancer at bay, but when the tumor becomes resistant to anti-hormonal drugs, treatment with chemotherapy becomes the only option. But a study presented at the 2008 ASCO Breast Cancer Symposiummay change this approach. Early data suggests
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:33:34 +0000
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. The WVU researchers' study has just b
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:21 +0000
A cheap drug used to treat brittle bones helps halt breast cancer in its tracks according to scientists. When used with a common chemotherapy drug, the tumours all but stopped.
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:19:28 +0000
On September 20, 2007, Postrel (former editor of Reason) wrote on her blog, "I have breast cancer and start chemotherapy next Friday. Despite an aggressive type of cancer, my prognosis is good, thanks largely to the monoclonal antibody drug Herceptin. She checks in to her blog today to tell her readers that she is doing well and cancer free.
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:19:02 +0000
Two women are taking legal action to get the right to buy "topup" breast cancer drugs in addition to the chemotherapy they receive on the Health Service.
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:13:26 +0000
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10 or Vitamin Q10) has shown remarkable actions in breast cancer patients and also can possibly prevent heart damage by chemotherapy drugs. Although no research has been done on Ovarian Cancer and CoQ10, this article will try to determine if this is an important supplement to take.
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:55:44 +0000
A new research showed that GlaxoSmithKline Plc's drug Tykerb combined with chemotherapy can fight breast cancer that has spread to the brain.
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:09:19 +0000
The breast cancer chemotherapy drug Taxol may not help most breast cancer patients, researchers report in The New England Journal of key finding: Adding Taxol to a chemotherapy regimen may only benefit women who have HER2-positive breast cancer, in which breast cancer has a high level of a protein called HER2.
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:31:10 +0000
WASHINGTON- A new chemotherapy drug called Ixempra made by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co for women with advanced breast cancer that does not respond to other therapies has won U.S. approval to be sold and is expected to be available in days.
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:17:03 +0000
According to new research published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, the very?widely used chemotherapy drug Taxol does not work for the most common form of breast cancer and helps far fewer patients than has been believed?
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:52:28 +0000
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the chemotherapy agent TaxotereŽ (docetaxel), in combination with PlatinolŽ (cisplatin) and 5-fluorouracil, for use prior to surgery and chemoradiation therapy for the treatment of locally advanced squamous cell head and neck cancer. Taxotere is also approved for breast, lung, g
Fri, 18 May 2007 23:29:41 +0000
New drugs for breast cancer could save thousands of lives a year without the need for gruelling als have shown that hormone therapy drugs are at least as effective as chemotherapy in women under 40- but with fewer side effects
Fri, 18 May 2007 05:40:41 +0000
New drugs for breast cancer could save thousands of lives a year without the need for gruelling chemotherapy. Trials have shown that hormone therapy drugs are at least as effective as chemotherapy in women under 40- but with fewer side effects.
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:07:53 +0000
Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation may sometimes cause tumors to spread and U.S. researchers said on Thursday they may have nailed down one of the causes- a compound called TGF-ts in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast can[.]
Mon, 15 May 2006 04:19:13 +0000
A recent U.S. medical study says chemotherapy to treat breast cancer might be recommended for only 30 percent of women whose cancer is not fueled by estrogen. After years of adding more drugs, shorter intervals between chemotherapy sessions, higher doses and longer periods of harsh therapy, doctors are wondering whether.