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Drug May Boost Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer (en inglés)
Women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that had stopped responding or failed to respond to other treatments lived 2 months longer when treated with Halavan (chemical name: eribulin) compared to ...
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SABCS: Capecitabine Gets Mixed Results in Early Breast CA (en inglés)
Adjuvant chemotherapy is chemotherapy given after surgery to lower the risk of the cancer coming back (recurrence). Adjuvant chemotherapy isn't routinely recommended for all women diagnosed with early-...
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Taxane Regimen Works for Node-Negative Breast CA (en inglés)
A combination of chemotherapy medicines often is given after breast cancer surgery for early-stage breast cancer to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back (recurrence). Giving a treatment after surg...
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FDA Approves Drug for Pretreated Breast Cancer (en inglés)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new chemotherapy medicine, Halaven (chemical name: eribulin), to treat metastatic breast cancer that already has been treated with other chemo...
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ASE: Early Echo Predicts Heart Damage in Breast CA Therapy (en inglés)
A study suggests that a new way to measure heart damage caused by certain breast cancer treatments may find damage earlier than traditional tests.
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Longer Chemo for Breast Cancer More Effective (en inglés)
A study suggests that treating early-stage breast cancer with two common chemotherapy medicines followed by a third (doctors call this a sequential approach) has some advantages compared to giving two ...
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SABCS: Confirmation of Chemo Benefit in Breast Cancer (en inglés)
After surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer, many women are treated with a combination of chemotherapy medicines. If a woman is postmenopausal and the cancer is hormone-receptor-positive, she'll ...
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SABCS: Anthracycline Not Needed with Trastuzumab (en inglés)
After breast cancer surgery, many women diagnosed with early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer are treated with the targeted therapy Herceptin (chemical name: trastuzumab) and a combination of chemoth...
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Standard Therapy Tops Capecitabine in Older Patients (en inglés)
Taking chemotherapy medicine orally (by mouth) may seem like a better option than getting chemotherapy intravenously for some women, especially older women. But a study found that women older than 65 w...
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TOP2A Gene Change Affects Response in Breast Cancer (en inglés)
Genes in breast cancer cells affect how the cancer grows and how it responds to certain treatments. A study found that HER2-negative breast cancers are usually topo II-negative. This means that the can...
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