Drug combo helps women with advanced breast cancer

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 05/16/2008 - 00:25

A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments....


 

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