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Roche aiming to launch 6 new products by end 2014

2010-03-18T04:30:14Z

<div><p>ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG is aiming to launch at least six new products by the end of 2014 and is seeking to further boost its position in areas outside oncology, the Swiss drugmaker said ahead of its investor day.</p><p>Roche, the world's largest maker of cancer drugs, is aiming to build up its strength in the...

Glaxo cancer drugs given European greenlight

2010-02-22T08:18:19Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;European regulators on Friday recommended GlaxoSmithKline PLC's kidney cancer drug Votrient for conditional marketing authorization and also backed the wider use of the company's breast cancer drug Tyverb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decisions by the Reuters) - The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers in Canada reported on Monday.</p><p>Women who took G...

Few high-risk women in U.S. take breast cancer drug

2010-02-22T10:43:28Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only a small number of U.S. women at high risk of breast cancer have chosen to use the drug tamoxifen to lower that risk, according to a study published Monday.</p><p>In 2005, government researchers found, about 51,500 U.S. women were...

Metastatic Breast Cancer: Causes, Symptoms And Treatment

2010-02-22T12:51:03Z

In women, breast cancer is the common type of cancer and it is affecting one out of eight women. At any time, this cancer may develop and the risk increases with developing of cancer as the women get older. In most of the post-menopausal women, it is common and with the increase in age will increase the risk as well.<br><br>When the breast cancer is spread beyond the breast, then it is said to be in metastatic state. This means that cancer has traveled from breast ...

Gene discovery may help guide breast cancer care

2010-02-22T15:38:58Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - An abnormality in two genes can make a common class of chemotherapy drugs used to fight breast cancer less effective, U.S. researchers said on Sunday in a finding that could help doctors better tailor treatments.</p><p>They said changes in two ge...

What I learned from breast cancer

2010-02-22T19:17:08Z

<div><p>I never thought I’d get cancer. I ran six miles a day, and did mini-triathlons and in-line skating; I ate a sensible Mediterranean diet. I managed to take care of myself even while working 80 hours a week and traveling the globe as a successful meeting planner. I thought I was in perfect shape.</p><p>Then I felt the lump. I was 45 years old and single, living in Connecticut. It w...

Five Important CoQ10 Benefits in Cancer Patients

2010-02-22T21:08:40Z

Coenzyme Q10 has many interesting benefits; one most thrilling benefit is its capability of treating or as defense for cancer. However, there is no conclusive practical proof for the cause, but there are many hopeful results.<br><br>The use of CoQ10 in cancer treatment started in 1961. Scientists in their research found low levels of coenzyme in the blood of cancers of pancreas, prostate, lung, breast, kidney, colon, neck and head, myeloma and lymphoma. Hence, they...

Acupuncture eases tamoxifen-related hot flashes

2010-02-22T23:24:54Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study provides more evidence that acupuncture can help ease hot flashes in women with breast cancer who are being treated with the "anti-estrogen" drug tamoxifen. Acupuncture, researchers found, is free of side effects and has a side benefit for some women: an increased sex drive.</p><p&g...

Pomegranate compounds may ease breast cancer risk

2010-02-23T00:55:55Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enzyme-blocking chemicals in pomegranates may reduce the risk of estrogen-fueled breast cancers, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>An acid found in pomegranates appears to block aromatase, an enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen, a hormone that plays a role in the development o...

Avon Breast Cancer Walk Nyc

2010-02-23T01:51:21Z

Author: Vanessa A. Doctor

I was diagnosed more than a decade ago with infiltrating intraductal breast cancer and I turned down all conventional treatment including chemotherapy, radiation and surgery and chose an alternative route. Avon Breast Cancer Walk Nyc No single or double mastectomy either. And I'm still in excellent health today.

The trend is alarming as more and more women are removing healthy breasts because they are panicked, are in fear of breast cancer ...

Life Science Stocks: A Growing Market in 2010

2010-02-23T08:36:54Z

<div><p> It took more than four years, a double mastectomy, and multiple other surgeries -- as well as radiation treatments and bad reactions to ineffective chemotherapy drugs -- before Christine Hanson's breast cancer was brought under control by Dr. Mark Fesen in Hutchinson, Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Bayer said their Nexavar pill, sold in more than 70 countries to treat cancers of the liver and kidney, extended the lives of women with advanced breast cancer by delaying growth of malignancies tha...

HERCEPTIN HELPS DELIVER A WARHEAD

2010-02-23T11:23:43Z

<div><h1>HERCEPTIN HELPS DELIVER A WARHEAD </h1><p>Roche and ImmunoGen reported on a "guided missile" combination drug called T-DM1 that shrank tumors by 30% or more in one-third of critically ill, advanced breast cancer patients in a trial. The therapy combines Roche's Herceptin with a second, potent cancer-killing drug from ImmunoGen, w...

Nexavar may help breast cancer drugs work longer

2010-02-23T17:17:09Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers may have found a way to overcome resistance to hormone-blocking breast cancer drugs, extending the life of treatments that keep the disease in check.</p><p>They said the drug Nexavar ...

Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival

2010-02-23T17:25:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Novel drug combo boosts survival of breast cancer patients with advanced disease, study finds</div><div><p>Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.</p><p>It was the first big test of com...

Chemotherapy boosts breast cancer survival: study

2010-02-23T17:33:42Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chemotherapy helps improve breast cancer survival in post-menopausal women, adding to a long-standing debate about how best to treat these women, U.S. researchers said Thursday.</p><p>A gene-based test called Oncotype DX made by Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Newfoundland, Labrador suit</div><div><p>A $17.5 million preliminary settlement has been reached in a lawsuit alleging severe flaws in a Canadian health care provider's breast cancer screening. Hormone receptor tests administered by Easter...