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Lapatinib Reduces Mammary Tumor Development in Mouse Model of Breast Cancer Lapatinib delayed tumor development in a mouse model of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer and reduced the number of tumors per animal compared with mice treated only with...
Tags: cancer, breast cancer, research, tumors
Nonhormonal chemotherapy treatment regimens, including anthracycline-based regimens and taxanes have been shown to improve overall survival in women with metastatic or recurrent inoperable breast cancer over the last 35 years. Researchers at the University...
Tags: tumors, research, some, breast cancer, cancer treatment
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced the initiation of two clinical trials of the company's product candidate PTC299 in adult patients with solid tumor cancers and Kaposi Sarcoma, a HIV-related cancer. PTC299 is an orally delivered, investigational...
Tags: tumors
A new test to predict an ordinary woman's odds of getting breast cancer works better than a method doctors have relied on for decades, researchers reported Friday. The test is the first to combine dozens of genes and personal factors like age and childbearing...
Tags: cancer, breast, research, women, tumors, some, breast cancer
Aromatase inhibitors, which lower the amount of estrogen in the body, are more effective in preventing breast cancer than tamoxifen, U.S. researchers said. Two separate meta-analyses of worldwide clinical trials tested tamoxifen against aromatase inhibitor...
Tags: breast cancer, cancer, tumors, breast cancers, some, aromatase inhibitor
Chemotherapy immediately following initial surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy) is an important part of breast cancer treatment and has been proven to decrease the risk of cancer recurrence. Ixabepilone recently received FDA approval for treatment of advanced...
Tags: cancer, breast, research, tumors, health, breast cancer
Considered as a "gold standard" for breast cancer treatment, Tamoxifen has been used to combat the disease for more than 20 years and has been credited with saving the lives of around 20,000 women since the 1980s. But now, scientists have conducted laboratory...
Tags: cancer, breast, women, research, some, tumors, breast cancer, cancer drug
Scientists in the US examining how human melanoma , a deadly form of skin cancer, spreads in mice specially bred to be vulnerable to cancer, found that there was a higher proportion of tumor causing cells in cancerous tissue than had previously been assumed,...
Experts Debate CyberKnife for Prostate Cancer from the Washington Post (Registration Required) When Georgetown University Hospital bought a new high-tech system in 2001 to treat patients with radiation, doctors at first used the computerized, robotic...
Tags: tumors