If you’re a woman with HER2 positive breast cancer, stand up right now and cheer: Tykerb, a new drug approved this week by the FDA, has just doubled the arsenal of effective treatments.
Up till now, Herceptin has been the only somewhat effective treatment for HER-2 positive cancer, which affects one-third of women with invasive breast cancer.
Unfortunately, Herceptin doesn’t work for all women, and it also tends to lose its effectiveness over time. In addition, it’s been shown to cause
Q. I’m having TCH chemotherapy for breast cancer. What is it?A. The chemotherapy drugs Paclitaxel (Taxol) or docetaxel (Taxotere) and... Read more »
The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual breast cancer symposium, held this month in Washington D.C., yielded a heavy harvest... Read more »
From the San Antonio Breast Conference in December, new data shows a higher than predicted rate of breast cancer recurrence even with very... Read more »
Most oncologists now are thinking of breast cancer as at least four diseases based on endocrine features - luminal A, luminal B, Her2... Read more »
Sometimes, things do not go as we like and breast cancer returns in a different site from the breast - a metastatic site. It's what... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
SPoT-Light HER2 CISH, which stands for Subtraction Probe Technology Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, is a test used to determine whether breast... Read more »
Olive oil may prevent the formation of breast cancer cells, a new study suggests. Researchers in Spain found that when breast cancer cells were... Read more »
Source: First DataBank
Generic Name: DOCETAXEL - INJECTION Pronounced: (doh-seh-TAX-ell) Warning Docetaxel has caused severe (rarely fatal) allergic reactions and... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
Brand name: Taxotere Chemical name: Docetaxel Class: Taxane chemotherapy. Abraxane and Taxol are other taxanes. How it works: Taxanes interfere with... Read more »
Patients who have inflammatory breast cancer that has not responded to chemotherapy or to Herceptin may be helped by trying Tykerb, researchers say.... Read more »
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