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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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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: 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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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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Sequential Docetaxel: No Benefit in Early Breast Cancer (en inglés)
The chemotherapy medicine Taxotere (chemical name: docetaxel) is approved to be used in combination with other chemotherapy medicines to treat early-stage breast cancer. Still, doctors continued to stu...
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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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Paclitaxel improves early breast cancer survival (en inglés)
A large study looked at more than 1,200 women who had surgery to treat early-stage breast cancer that had spread to nearby lymph nodes. After surgery, all of the women got a particular combination of c...
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Weekly Taxol best for followup breast cancer care (en inglés)
A study found that getting Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) weekly had more benefits than getting Taxol every 3 weeks for women diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes or women...
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Breast cancer survival longer with Taxotere: study (en inglés)
The combination of two chemotherapy medicines, Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) and Cytoxan (chemical name: cyclophosphamide), often referred to as AC, is commonly used after surgery to treat an...
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