Sentences with phrase «treatment of advanced breast cancer»

New Drug Therapies for Breast Cancer Tamoxifen has been used for twenty years in the treatment of advanced breast cancer.

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«Fortunately, with the advances in breast cancer treatment, there has been a growing number of survivors.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

«There is currently no method that can predict treatment outcome of chemotherapy early on in treatment, so this is a major advance,» says Hielscher, co-leader of the study, who is also a member of the Breast Cancer Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

While one drug, MEK inhibitor, is usually used in advanced - stage melanoma, the other drug, CDK4 / 6 inhibitor, palbociclib, is currently FDA - approved for treatment of Estrogen Receptor - positive breast cancer patients.

«Stopping the spread of breast cancer: Newly discovered pathway may advance treatment.»

Tryfonidis et al. discuss perspectives and future directions for the management of locally advanced breast cancer in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, and they see a need for not only standardizing treatment for this disease, but also for developing new therapies that could substantially improve outcome.

The drugs are already approved for treatment of patients with advanced breast cancer as well as ovarian, pancreatic and certain lung cancers.

We have made great advances in the treatment of certain cancers such as pediatric, all breast cancer and lymphoma, for example.

«In particular, his approach can be thought of as a very advanced biological therapy for the treatment of breast cancer; one that uses viruses, which are better recognized to cause disease, to treat human breast cancers.»

By looking at the DNA in your samples, researchers can make discoveries that will ultimately lead to a better understanding and faster advances in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Your tissue samples and medical information will be used for transformative genomic studies that will ultimately lead to a better understanding and faster advances in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

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For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.

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Currently, the CDK9 inhibitor flavopiridol is being evaluated in several phase I and II clinical trials for its anti-cancer effects either as a single agent or in combination with other drugs in treatment of esophageal cancer, B - cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, endometrial carcinoma, recurrent / metastatic squamous cell carcinoma and most relevantly, previously treated locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (http://www.cancernetwork.com/review-article/current-clinical-trials-flavopiridol/page/0/2).