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New Melanoma Drug Boosts Survival Rates

Written on 22 Jun, 2011 at 4:54 in Cancer, New Drugs | viewed 559 views times | No Comments

Patients with advanced skin cancer can now hope to extend life. The new treatment unveiled at a cancer meeting in Chicago has been praised by the cancer care fraternity. Vemurafenib is an experimental drug that attacks the root of the... (Continue reading)

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Pfizer’s New Drug Slows Pancreatic Tumors

Written on 5 Apr, 2011 at 13:22 in Cancer, New Drugs | viewed 251 views times | No Comments

Pfizer’s experimental drug, CP- 870,893 slowed down pancreatic cancer significantly. The treatment tricks the immune system and shrinks pancreatic tumors by targeting the tissue around the cancer mass instead of the malignant cells. The method was tested on lab mice... (Continue reading)

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Treatment of Cancer: Now and the Future

Written on 24 Aug, 2010 at 12:24 in Uncategorized | viewed 237 views times | No Comments
Treatment of Cancer: Now and the Future

Cancer is when something in your body goes wrong.  A cell that normally should stop growing or die refuses to do so. It keeps dividing.  As it grows, it forms a mass of cells that may or may not decide... (Continue reading)

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Thoughts on Cancer Medications

Written on 26 Feb, 2010 at 8:33 in Cancer, Medication | viewed 891 views times | No Comments
Thoughts on Cancer Medications

Some of the most interesting – on a pharmacological level – medications I’ve encountered are cancer treatments. Take Tamoxifen, for instance.  This highly effective treatment for certain types of breast cancer works because it blocks the effects of estrogen in... (Continue reading)

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Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer & Side Effects

Written on 11 Dec, 2009 at 13:03 in breast cancer | viewed 2,366 views times | 53 Comments
Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer & Side Effects

What is this drug? Tamoxifen is a treatment for breast cancer in both men and women that works by blocking estrogen from stimulating breast tissue.  That stimulation leads in part to roughly 2/3 of breast cancers, and so blocking it... (Continue reading)

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