Ongoing trials are testing Herceptin in combination with Tarceva in advanced breast cancer.
And perhaps most intriguing of all, the same kidney drug seems to have big potential for treating advanced breast cancer.
Slamon was the force behind the first in a new generation of targeted cancer therapies: Herceptin, for advanced breast cancer.
Celldex enrolled 120 patients with advanced breast cancer that over-expresses a protein known as GPNMB (confirmed by an independent test).
Zeneca's approach got a boost in late 1998 with the approval of Herceptin , a Genentech drug for advanced breast cancer.
Following her own diagnosis with a locally advanced breast cancer in 1998, she has since devoted her energy to helping other survivors.
One of my first was a delightful woman with advanced breast cancer.
The drug, which hits a key growth-promoting molecule inside cells, called mTOR, is also showing surprising preliminary promise in treating advanced breast cancer patients.
Exemestane is licensed in the UK. However, at the moment it is only given to women with advanced breast cancer who won't benefit from surgery.
In August, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory board recommended rescinding approval of Avastin for women with advanced breast cancer, apparently because the committee was concerned about efficacy and, according to some, the cost.
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Read said Pfizer's mid- to late-stage drug pipeline "continues to strengthen with key potential opportunities, " including drugs for advanced breast cancer and three other types of cancer, one for high cholesterol and a meningococcal B vaccine for adolescents and young adults.
It has released what it says are promising results to trials for its Stutent drug that may reduce advanced breast, lung and kidney cancer.
These findings suggest that older women with breast cancer and women with more advanced disease may be treated less aggressively in the UK than in the other five countries.
The article said retrospective research data from hospitals in Ohio and Missouri noted that failing to get regular breast screenings often left these women more likely to discover cancer at an advanced stage and the delay resulted in larger tumors and a worse prognosis once the cancer was uncovered.
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