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Weekly Low-Dose Taxol Offers Same Benefits as Higher Dose Every Two Weeks with Different Side Effects
A study has found that getting Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) at a lower dose weekly offers the same benefits as getting a higher dose every 2 weeks.
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Women Taking Statins Have Fewer Heart Problems During Anthracycline Chemotherapy
A study found that women who were taking a statin during and after being treated for breast cancer with anthracycline chemotherapy had fewer heart problems than women who weren’t taking a statin.
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Use of Anthracyclines to Treat Breast Cancer Has Gone Down
A study has found that after 2005, there was a large increase in taxane chemotherapy and a decrease in anthracycline chemotherapy to treat breast cancer in the United States.
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Chemo During Pregnancy Appears Safe for Mother and Child
A study supports other research that suggests chemotherapy during pregnancy doesn't have harmful effects on the baby.
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Research Suggests How Metastatic Cancer Becomes Resistant to Chemotherapy
A very early study on cancer cells in petri dishes in the lab has found that a type of cell called a fibroblast also is damaged by chemotherapy. Damaged fibroblasts make a protein called WNT16B that may help metastatic cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy and grow.
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Halavan May Help Treat Metastatic Disease
Women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that didn't respond to other treatments who got Halavan lived 2 months longer than women who got supportive care or a standard metastatic cancer treatment.
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Xeloda Doesn’t Seem to Reduce Recurrence Risk
A new study shows that the risk of recurrence is the same whether or not Xeloda was added to a standard adjuvant chemotherapy regimen for early-stage breast cancer with a high risk of recurrence.
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Chemo During Pregnancy Doesn’t Harm Baby
New research supports other studies that suggest that chemotherapy during pregnancy doesn't have harmful effects on the baby.
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Taxotere Better Than Fluorouracil in Chemo Regimen After Surgery for Early-Stage Disease
Chemotherapy that included Taxotere offered slightly better results than a regimen that included 5-FU for women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer that hadn't spread to the lymph nodes, but Taxotere was more likely to cause serious side effects.
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Halaven Approved by FDA to Treat Metastatic Breast Cancer
The FDA has approved a new chemotherapy medicine, Halaven (chemical name: eribulin), to treat metastatic breast cancer that already has been treated with other chemotherapy medicines.
