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Lung Cancer Prevention Potential For Estrogen-Targeting Drug Combo
A combination of drugs that target estrogen production significantly reduced the number of tobacco carcinogen-induced lung tumors in mice, according to results from a preclinical study. "Antiestrogens have been shown to prevent breast cancer in some women," said Jill M. Siegfried, Ph.D., professor in the department of pharmacology and chemical ...
Estrogen-targeting drug combo may help prevent lung cancer
A combination of drugs that target estrogen production significantly reduced the number of tobacco carcinogen-induced lung tumors in mice, according to results from a preclinical study.
Superior Drug Combo For Difficult-To-Control Epilepsy
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. More than 3 million Americans have epilepsy, and ...
Study finds superior drug combo for difficult-to-control epilepsy
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report to be published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Chemo Combo Kills Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells
Two drugs never used together before in treating ovarian cancer killed 70% of cells already resistant to commonly used chemotherapy compounds, concludes a new study published online recently in Gynecologic Oncology. Lead author Dr Prakash Vishnu from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and colleagues, hope the ...
Triple Drug Combo Eradicates 50% More Tumors In HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Than Standard Treatment
Findings of the phase 2 NeoSphere study, published Online First in The Lancet Oncology shows that by adding monoclonal antibody pertuzumab to standard therapy (trastuzumab [Herceptin] plus the chemotherapy drug docetaxel) for women with an aggressive type of early-stage breast cancer (HER2-positive disease) improved the rate of complete tumor disappearance ...
Anti-estrogen combo better than single drug for hormone-sensitive breast cancer
ANN ARBOR, MICH. Post-menopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer may have a new treatment option that could lengthen their lives, according to results of a study by the SWOG clinical trials network that were presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. ...
Anti-estrogen combo better than single drug for hormone-sensitive breast cancer
Post-menopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer may have a new treatment option that could lengthen their lives, according to results of a study by the SWOG clinical trials network that were presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Anti-estrogen combo better than single drug for hormone-sensitive breast cancer
(University of Michigan Health System) A phase III study by the SWOG clinical trials network shows new treatment combining anastrozole and fulvestrant can lengthen lives of post-menopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Phillips gets FDA approval for its combo PET/MRI scanner
Royal Philips Electronics NV has received approval from U.S. regulators to introduce a single medical imaging device that can scan the body for cancer using two technologies.
Breast Tenderness With Combo Hormone Therapy May Signal Breast Cancer
The debate about using menopausal hormone therapies to relieve symptoms in post-menopausal women has been ongoing. Is the combination therapy of estrogen and progestin better or worse than just giving women estrogen alone? In women who still have a uterus (those who have not had a hysterectomy), progestin counteracts the ...