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New York - Eli Lilly & Co. said Thursday hefty costs related to its $6.5 billion acquisition of ImClone will force the drugmaker to post a loss for 2008 and significantly lower earnings for 2009, and warned of slower sales growth due to the stronger ...
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - New research adds fresh hope that a drug that strengthens bones might also fight breast cancer. Women who were given the drug, Zometa, as part of their initial treatment had greater tumor shrinkage and were less likely to need ...
Read moreStudy: Bone drug helps chemo fight breast cancer - WTOP Radio
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2008) — Women with early-stage breast cancer who have undergone breast augmentation may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment called brachytherapy, according to a study presented today at the ...
Read moreBreast Cancer Treatment Offers Better Outcome To Women With Implants - Science Daily
Although the link between early screening and prostate cancer survival is well established, men are less likely to go for early screening unless they have a wife or significant other living with them, according to a study from researchers at the ...
Read moreMarried Men More Likely To Be Screened For Prostate Cancer - eMaxHealth.com
www.pfizer.com - Pfizer today announced results from a first planned analysis of the TEAM (Tamoxifen, Exemestane, Adjuvant, Multicenter) trial. TEAM was originally designed in 2001 as a comparison of 5 years of upfront AROMASIN® (exemestane tablets ...
Read morePfizer Announces Results from Trial of AROMASIN in Postmenopausal ... - PR Inside
Black women have higher rates of early-onset breast cancer and lower rates of late-onset breast cancer than their white counterparts, according to a study published in the December Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Reuters reports. The study ...
Read moreAge-Related Breast Cancer Rates Vary - eMaxHealth.com
- Femara showed reduced risk of death by 13% (P=0.08), despite inclusion of patients crossing over from tamoxifen to Femara therapy - In a separate censored analysis excluding patients after they crossed over to Femara, reduction in risk of death was ...
Read moreVideo: Femara(R) First Aromatase Inhibitor to Indicate Survival ... - PR Newswire
The four Columbus-based hospital systems are collectively studying if it’s a good idea to bring a proton therapy cancer treatment center to Central Ohio, consultant Battelle said Thursday. Battelle has been helping the four evaluate a business case ...
Read moreHospitals team up to look into proton cancer therapy - Columbus Business Journal
The human immune system is in a perpetual state of self-experimentation. It expertly mutates and shuffles the DNA of its own cells to evolve new defenses against the vast array of microbes that try to invade our bodies. But when the genetic ...
Read moreAn enzyme that mutates antibodies also targets a cancer-causing ... - News-Medical.Net
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - More and more New Mexicans are being diagnosed with cancer from chewing tobacco, including liver cancer, one of the least treatable. Dr. Robert Romas at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center talks about the epidemic
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