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Monday, 16 November 2009 20:45 |
Breast Cancer Articles
Breast Cancer
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MedPage Today Breast Cancer
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- SABCS: Liposomal Doxorubicin Safe in Advanced Breast Ca
SAN ANTONIO -- Women with advanced breast cancer who have been pretreated with anthracyclines can be safely treated with nonpegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Myocet) along with docetaxel (Taxotere) with little effect on cardiac risk, researchers reported here. ...
- SABCS: Silent Brain Mets Common in Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO -- Asymptomatic brain metastases observed in magnetic resonance imaging studies appear to be common in women diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, researchers said here. ...
- SABCS: Surgery May Help in Advanced Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO -- Surgical removal of primary breast cancer tumors in women who present with metastatic disease might improve local disease control and possibly overall survival, researchers suggested here. ...
- SABCS: Bevacizumab Slows Metastatic Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO -- Women with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer appeared to gain a disease-free survival benefit when bevacizumab was added to first-line therapy with trastuzumab and docetaxel, results of a large, randomized trial showed. ...
- SABCS: Novel Agent Helps Slow Advanced Breast Ca
SAN ANTONIO -- Adding the investigative agent pertuzumab to the attack against the family of HER2 genes appears to markedly slow progression of metastatic breast cancer, researchers found. ...
- SABCS: Addition of Everolimus Helps Slow Breast Cancer
SAN ANTONIO -- The combination of everolimus (Afinitor) and the aromatase inhibitor exemestane (Aromasin) extended progression-free survival in women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer by more than four months, researchers said here. ...
- Vaccine May Slow Advance of Breast, Ovarian Cancers
Ovarian and breast cancer patients with limited tumor burden and minimal prior chemotherapy may benefit from a recombinant poxviral vaccine, according to researchers with the National Cancer Institute. ...
- ASTRO: Neoadjuvant Endocrine Tx Viable in ER Positive Cancer
MIAMI BEACH -- Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy is a potential alternative to pre-surgery cytotoxic chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, a single-center study suggested. ...
- ASTRO: Breast Cancer Type Predicts Brain Mets Outcome
MIAMI BEACH -- Survival among women with breast cancer who developed brain metastases was influenced by cancer subtype, a researcher said here. ...
- ECCO-ESMO: Drug Combo Works in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
STOCKHOLM -- In clinical practice, bevacizumab (Avastin) plus paclitaxel (Taxol) works about as well for patients with triple-negative metastatic breast cancer as it does for those without triple-negative disease, researchers said here. ...
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