advanced breast cancer

Overweight, insulin resistant women at greater risk of advanced ...

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Melbourne) Women who have risk factors commonly associated with type 2 diabetes also have much greater odds of being diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer, according to research to be presented today.

Drug combo helps women with advanced breast cancer

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:25:14 -0500

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....

Bone drug could help prevent the spread of breast cancer

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Washington University School of Medicine) Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

NovoCure presents results from breast cancer pilot study

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

NovoCure announced today that it presented the results from a single-arm pilot trial evaluating the Novo-TTF, a non-invasive portable medical device, combined with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with locally advanced breast cancer.