In early-stage breast cancer Herceptin doubles a woman's chances of living cancer free.

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Thursday evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AstraZeneca 's Arimidex for use against early-stage breast cancer in post-menopausal women.

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Professor MARCY DEVEAUX (Journalism, California State University Northridge): Finding breast cancer so early now that they had to put a stage in between zero and one.

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One year after diagnosis, survival for women with early-stage breast cancer was close to 100% in all six countries.

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In Denmark, only 30% of women with breast cancer were diagnosed at an early stage, compared with 42-45% elsewhere.

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And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.

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