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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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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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ESMO: Eribulin Shows Benefit Across Subgroups (en inglés)
A study suggests that an experimental chemotherapy medicine called eribulin may be a good treatment option for various types of metastatic breast cancer that have stopped responding or failed to respon...
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Breast Cancer Regimen Effective But Toxic (en inglés)
Adjuvant chemotherapy is chemotherapy given after surgery to lower the risk of the cancer coming back (recurrence). A study looked at women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and found that adjuv...
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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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Breast Cancer Benefit Seen for Bevacizumab Combo (en inglés)
Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine) is a chemotherapy medicine used to treat advanced (metastatic) breast cancer. A study found that a combination of Xeloda and Avastin (chemical name: bevacizumab), a...
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ASCO Breast: Low-Dose, Rapid-Cycle Chemotherapy Active Against Anthracycline-Resistant Disease (en inglés)
Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) and Ellence (chemical name: epirubicin) are both anthracyclines, a type of chemotherapy medicine. Anthracyclines often are used to treat advanced-stage breast ca...
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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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FDA approves new drug for advanced breast cancer (en inglés)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Ixempra (chemical name: ixabepilone -- pronounced icks-a-bep-ih-loan) to treat advanced breast cancer after other chemotherapy treatments have stopp...
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