Noticias de investigación sobre quimioterapia
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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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"Dose-dense" chemo cuts Herceptin heart risk-study (en inglés)
A study found that when Herceptin (chemical name: trastuzumab) was given in combination with dose-dense chemotherapy, the risk of heart problems from Herceptin was lower than when Herceptin was given w...
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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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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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Some breast cancers don't respond to chemotherapy (en inglés)
Getting the best breast cancer treatment can feel like a balancing act: you want to do as much as you can to get rid of the cancer and lower the risk of it coming back. But you'd like to avoid uncomfor...
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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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More whites than blacks get breast cancer chemo (en inglés)
Research has shown that breast cancer in African American women is genetically different compared to breast cancer in white women. It's usually more aggressive and diagnosed at an earlier age and at a ...
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