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Breast Cancer Drugs from Pfizer and L...

April 10, 2014 Written by admin
Experimental breast cancer drugs from Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) slowed or halted growth of advanced tumors in studies, potentially adding a new treatment option for patients and top-selling therapies for the companies. Pfizer’s palbociclib doubled to 20.2 months the time in which patients’ advanced breast cancer didn’t [...]
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Squeezing Breasts Can Help Fight Brea...

December 21, 2012 Written by admin
Squeezing Breasts Can Help Fight Breast Cancer
New research has found that applying physical force on one’s breasts can prevent malignant cancer cells. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented their findings Monday at the Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. “People have known for centuries that physical force can [...]
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Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growt...

October 10, 2011 Written by admin
Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growth and metastasis of breast tumors
A possible new target for breast cancer therapy comes from the discovery that the Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growth and metastasis of breast tumors, as reported in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Qifang Zhang and Andrew Larner, Virginia Commonwealth University (R [...]
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Prolia Is approved by the FDA to stre...

September 30, 2011 Written by admin
Prolia Is approved by the FDA to strengthen bones of some cancer patients
The FDA has approved the osteoporosis drug Prolia as a treatment for some breast and prostate cancer patients whose bones have been weakened by certain hormone therapies for cancer. The drug’s manufacturer, Amgen Inc., says studies showed that Prolia improved bone mass and reduced the occurrence of new spine fractures in men with prosta [...]
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New Anti-Cancer Agents Show Promise f...

August 22, 2011 Written by admin
New Anti-Cancer Agents Show Promise for Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers
Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer are more vulnerable to chemotherapy when it is combined with a new class of anti-cancer agent, researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown. ABT-737 is one of a new class of anti-cancer agents called BH3 mimetics that target and neutralise the so-called Bcl-2 proteins in ca [...]
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