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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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Bisphosphonate Prevents Bone Loss During Breast Cancer Therapy (en inglés)
In premenopausal women, chemotherapy to treat early-stage breast cancer can cause the ovaries to shut down, either temporarily or permanently. Because the ovaries produce most of the estrogen in a prem...
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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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Raloxifene (Evista) Reduces Risk of ER-Positive Invasive Breast Cancer (en inglés)
Evista (chemical name: raloxifene) is a hormonal therapy medicine used to strengthen bones in women with osteoporosis. In September 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved using Evista to ...
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ASCO: Diabetes Drug Shows Potential as Breast Cancer Treatment Aid (en inglés)
Sometimes breast cancer is treated with chemotherapy BEFORE surgery to help shrink the cancer before it's removed. Chemotherapy given before surgery is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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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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Bone drug helps fight cancer spread - U.S. report (en inglés)
Zometa (chemical name: zoledronic acid) is a medicine used to strengthen bones in women diagnosed with breast cancer that has spread to the bone. Zometa can reduce bone pain and the risk of fractures. ...
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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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