GSK’s TYKERB(R) Receives Accelerated Approval For First-Line Combination Treatment Of Metastatic Breast Cancer
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for a new combination regimen using TYKERB® (lapatinib) as a first-line, all-oral treatment for women with metastatic breast cancer. TYKERB is now indicated in combination with letrozole [...]
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GSK’s TYKERB® Receives Accelerated Approval For First-Line Combination Treatment Of Metastatic Breast Cancer
New Real World Avastin Data From Over 3,200 Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Confirms Survival Benefit Beyond 2 …
Tobacco smoke causes lung inflammation, promotes lung cancer growth
( University of California – San Diego ) Repeated exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, and one reason is that it steps up inflammation in the lung. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that mice with early [...]
Metastatic Brain Cancer Survival Rates
Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away Wednesday night, at the age of 72, from leukemia at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut.
Metastatic Brain Cancer Survival Rates
An American treasure, an icon, a idol to my generation – Mary was the female singer-songwriter of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with her male counterparts [...]
Enzon Opens A Phase 2 Study Of PEG-SN38 For Metastatic Breast Cancer
Quercetin may prevent hepatitis C infection; findings may lead to less toxic treatments
Researchers have identified two cellular proteins that are important factors in hepatitis C virus infection, a finding that may result in the approval of new and less toxic treatments for the disease, which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.
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NeoPharm Presents The Phase II Data Of Liposome-Entrapped Paclitaxel (LEP) In Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Five Low-Cost Ways to Prevent Cancer
HOUSTON – In today’s troubled economy, saving money is a hot topic. No matter what gets cut from your budget, however, experts at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center believe that healthy choices to prevent cancer shouldn’t be on the list.
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NeoPharm Presents The [...]
Sopherion Therapeutics Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Myocet in Metastatic Breast Cancer
New breast cancer treatment cuts time
To reduce radiation treatment time for breast cancer patients, Provena Saint Joseph Hospital will begin a new plan of attack starting in February, hospital officials say. The new treatment — high-dose rate brachytherapy — is for older women with breast cancer in its earliest stages. It will cut treatment time [...]
Metastatic Brain Cancer Prognosis
The day your doctor tells you that you have arthritis for one; or perhaps you’ll have a minor heart attack. Metastatic Brain Cancer PrognosisEven the decree of cancer is an understood possibility. Certainly, one of the things you think you will never hear is “you need brain surgery.”
The day before my daughter graduated from Middle [...]
The Truth Behind Metastatic Lung Cancer
Unlike other forms of lung cancer, metastatic lung cancer is the result of a cancer from another part of the body spreading to the lungs. When a malignancy develops in the body (most often in the breasts, colon, prostate, or bladder, though almost all cancers have the ability to spread) it can sometimes spread through [...]
For Some Metastatic Cancer Cells, There’s No Place Like Home
‘Self-seeding’ of cancer cells may play a critical role in tumor progression
( Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ) Cancer progression is commonly thought of as a process involving the growth of a primary tumor followed by metastasis, in which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to distant organs. A new study by researchers at [...]
What are the Treatment Options and Survival Rates for Metastatic Colon Cancer
Metastatic colon cancer is one of the leading causes of death from cancers and tumors in the USA and unfortunately the survival rate for those diagnosed with it is below 10%.
If you have been diagnosed with a metastatic colon cancer then your life will change, but you should always remember that there is chance that [...]