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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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.
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.
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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In Denmark, only 30% of women with breast cancer were diagnosed at an early stage, compared with 42-45% elsewhere.
To take one of many examples, a group of researchers at the American Cancer Society looked at 533, 715 women with breast cancer, and asked: When those women were first diagnosed with breast cancer, were they diagnosed with early-stage or late-stage disease?
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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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