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Bone drug works for breast cancer survivors (en inglés)
A study found that the bone-strengthening medicine Actonel (chemical name: risendronate) can improve bone health after chemotherapy for breast cancer and can minimize the bone weakening that can happen...
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Roche breast cancer pill fails to help older women (en inglés)
Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine) is a chemotherapy medicine that has been shown to be a good treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Xeloda is a pill taken by mouth.
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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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Chemotherapy effects on brain may be a myth (en inglés)
Two small studies suggest that the memory changes and thinking difficulties (called chemobrain or chemofog) experienced by women getting chemotherapy are more likely due to the stress and emotional eff...
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Anemia increases risk of breast cancer recurrence (en inglés)
Developing anemia during chemotherapy to treat early-stage breast cancer seems to affect the risk of the cancer coming back. A small study found that women who became anemic while getting chemotherapy ...
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New Therapies Vie for Role in Breast Cancer (en inglés)
Researchers are continually working to find better ways to treat all stages of breast cancer. Several studies offer very early results on a number of new ways to treat breast cancer. The results were r...
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Older cancer drugs improved breast cancer survival (en inglés)
A study shows that chemotherapy after surgery significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer coming back and increases survival in women diagnosed with hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer.
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Chemo, tamoxifen cut risk of second breast cancer (en inglés)
Many women receive chemotherapy and a hormonal therapy medicine such as tamoxifen after breast cancer surgery to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back. A study showed that, either alone or in combi...
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Breast cancer therapy response detected early (en inglés)
Deciding on breast cancer treatments is a balancing act -- you want to choose the ones that are most effective AND have the fewest side effects. A small study of 54 women may give doctors another tool ...
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