Both drugs have proven to be effective in treating younger women with advanced cancer.
Most people who experience carcinoid syndrome have an advanced cancer that has spread to the liver.
Many patients getting lots of CT scans are old and have terminal diseases such as advanced cancer.
Those views are echoed by another patient with advanced cancer at St Gemma's, who is also planning to return home this week.
He was diagnosed with advanced cancer two years later in August 2012.
Overall, a quarter with advanced cancer said they had worked night shifts, compared with a third of those with borderline disease and one in five of the control group.
The researchers then confirmed their findings in another 70 US patients with advanced cancer, which revealed that nine genes could accurately spot who had the least chance of survival.
Analysis of the data showed a 24% increased risk of advanced cancer and 49% increased risk of early-stage disease for night workers compared with those who worked during the day.
However, those older women who still had independent lives may be able to tolerate the treatment and so cancer specialists should not assume all elderly women with advanced cancer cannot cope with the drugs.
Marley, a Labrador, got stem-cell therapy for his arthritis, surgery on his windpipe to deal with a condition that was choking off his breathing, and, at the end, medication to ease the pain of advanced cancer.
In recent years, evidence has built that the immune system can sometimes attack and kill cancer cells--sometimes--but that cancer finds ways to fight back and evade or blunt the attack. (See "Cancer Miracles") For some people with advanced cancer, ipilimumab may be just enough to trigger a full-fledged anti-tumor attack.
In one early trial on 64 cancer patients, 16 had advanced lung cancer--and tumors shriveled dramatically in 4 of them.
Genentech this morning announced that it has halted enrolling patients in a study testing its Avastin, which is widely forecast to become the best-selling cancer drug ever, in advanced ovarian cancer.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) this morning announced that it has halted enrolling patients in a study testing its Avastin, which is widely forecast to become the best-selling cancer drug ever, in advanced ovarian cancer.
Slamon was the force behind the first in a new generation of targeted cancer therapies: Herceptin, for advanced breast cancer.
Abraxane, a cancer chemotherapy made by Celgene, slowed tumor growth and cut the risk of death in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to results that will be presented at a conference on gastrointestinal tumors being held by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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It was approved in March for patients with advanced kidney cancer who failed other treatments.
No single drug developed in the past decade for advanced colorectal cancer represented a major breakthrough.
The tumour samples were donated by patients with advanced kidney cancer being treated at London's Royal Marsden Hospital.
In 2004, she learned that she had advanced ovarian cancer, which required extensive surgery and eighteen months of chemotherapy.
The poet's family has always maintained that he died in a Santiago clinic of advanced prostate cancer, aged 69.
The poet's family maintains that he died at 69 of advanced prostate cancer.
Ongoing trials are testing Herceptin in combination with Tarceva in advanced breast cancer.
Another study discussed Sunday and released previously showed it helped women with advanced cervical cancer live nearly four months longer.
And perhaps most intriguing of all, the same kidney drug seems to have big potential for treating 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.
Her decision to follow the guidance means the drug Sutent can be used as a first treatment for advanced kidney cancer.
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