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Benefits Of Taxol In Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy drugs are "cytotoxic" (cell-killing) drugs. They are given orally or by injection. They work systemically by killing cancer cells throughout the body. (Unfortunately, they also kill some normal cells, which accounts for many of their side effects.) Chemotherapy is always used for advanced breast cancer, but may also be used to treat types of early-stage breast cancer.
Newer biologic drugs target specific proteins involved in cancer. Treatment with these drugs is called...
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From Our Experts
Medical Oncologist's Response to Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing...
Breast Cancer News Editor's Note: Science and health news outlet EurekAlert! published yesterday an interesting summary of a Lancet study ... Read more »
Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Making Sense of Estrogen, Progesterone...
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New Research Questions Taxol's Efficacy for Common Breast Cancer
After enduring four grueling rounds of Taxol during my chemotherapy treatments, imagine my disappointment upon learning that it may have... Read more »
Taxol Effectiveness: Tempest in a Teapot?
A breast cancer treatment study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week has the national media hopping–and me... Read more »
Hormone Therapy FAQs: How Do Hormones Fit Into Breast Cancer...
Q. I was diagnosed with DCIS, and have had a lumpectomy and radiation. Now my oncologist says I’ll be doing hormone therapy. I thought... Read more »
From Our Sources
Hormonal Therapy for Male Breast Cancer
Source: Breastcancer.org
Medicines that target hormone receptors in breast cancer cells are called hormonal therapies. This form of treatment can be very effective against... Read more »
ERDs (Estrogen-Receptor Downregulators)
Source: Breastcancer.org
At a Glance ERDs keep estrogen from latching onto hormone receptors Hormone receptors are like ears or antennae on a cell. Estrogen sends signals... Read more »
Breast Cancer Hormone Treatment: Tamoxifen, other SERMs, and A...
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
www.cancer.gov -- National Cancer Institutewww.cancer.org -- American Cancer Societywww.asco.org -- American Society of Clinical... Read more »
Types of Breast Cancer: Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
Background Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a relatively rare type of breast cancer grows in the lymph vessels of the skin of the breast. Because... Read more »
SERMs (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators)
Source: Breastcancer.org
Selective estrogen receptor modulators, called SERMs for short, block the effects of estrogen in the breast tissue. SERMs work by sitting in the... Read more »
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