An assembly government spokeswoman said earlier that the drug had not been licensed for use in early breast cancer treatment.
Dr Ellis said the new combination was also likely to benefit all women with early breast cancer - although the clinical trials to confirm that were still ongoing.
Clinical trials are currently ongoing to study metformin in early breast cancer treatment and have demonstrated the benefit of metformin in the treatment of prostate, pancreatic, and liver cancer.
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Timothy Anderson, who covers Roche for Prudential Equity Group, suggested in a note to investors that 10% of patients in the U.S. who could benefit from Herceptin in early breast cancer could already be on the drug.
Nanotechnology, and the emerging field of nanomedicine, is one such solution and promises to change how we detect early stage breast cancer.
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But these possible factors do not explain why someone as young as Taylor, who is not overweight and did not hit puberty early got breast cancer in her teens.
One experiment by University of Toronto cancer researcher Robert Kerbel mimicked treating early-stage breast cancer with Pfizer's kidney cancer drug Sutent for short periods of time and then stopping.
Education of our communities around prevention and early detection of breast cancer is fundamental to our outreach efforts.
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One year after diagnosis, survival for women with early-stage breast cancer was close to 100% in all six countries.
In early-stage breast cancer Herceptin doubles a woman's chances of living cancer free.
Thursday evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AstraZeneca 's Arimidex for use against early-stage breast cancer in post-menopausal women.
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.
Late last year, Upshaw was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.
Since Ms. Emmerich was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer this past summer, her insurer -- one of the country's more than 200 state-regulated nonprofit "patient funds" -- has taken care of all of her doctor and chemotherapy bills.
In 1993, after four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Biden started the Biden Breast Health Initiative in Delaware, which in the past 18 years has educated more than 10, 000 high school girls about the importance of early detection of breast cancer.
Failure to diagnose breast cancer early, she said, could make all the difference between it being treatable or non-treatable.
Getting recommended screening mammograms can help to detect breast cancer early.
In a message to her fans, she said her ordeal had taught her the importance of early detection in fighting breast cancer and she urged other women to have mammograms.
When she was first diagnosed with the disease, she said her ordeal had taught her the importance of early detection in fighting breast cancer and she urged other women to have mammograms.
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.
We heard from Carla Hill, a two-time breast cancer survivor, who is now a spokeswoman and advocate for early detection, awareness, and researching the impact of breast cancer on young women, especially those of African descent in the Caribbean.
Dr. Biden continues to stress the importance of breast cancer research and early detection.
We know that if breast cancer is detected early, it's far easier to cure and much less costly to treat.
Doctors have known for a while that women who first give birth in their early 20s have lower rates of breast cancer later in life than women who delay childbearing.
The message really is that women should practice all aspects of breast cancer prevention and early detection, and we should all support research efforts to improve mammography and find better ways of screening.
He predicts that very soon all patients with colon cancer will be tested early on for kras status in the same way the breast cancer patients are tested to see their estrogen receptor status.
And that's not all: "Fat brings on puberty earlier and early puberty is a risk factor for breast cancer, " Weiss said.
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In Denmark, only 30% of women with breast cancer were diagnosed at an early stage, compared with 42-45% elsewhere.
Are we really expected to believe it costs more to screen and treat women early than it does to provide late stage breast cancer treatment?
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