In general, the goal of treatment for a metastatic recurrence isn't to cure the disease.
You have a tumor, and the tumor becomes metastatic, and it sheds metastatic cancer cells.
Currently, Faslodex is approved only for use in patients who have metastatic breast cancer.
On April 29, 2011, the drug was approved for the treatment of advanced metastatic colorectal cancer.
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In a late-stage clinical trial, Avastin failed to help patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Chemotherapy helps only 10% of metastatic melanoma patients, usually for just a few months.
"Many of our conventional treatments do not kill metastatic (spreading) cells efficiently, " Dr Simons said.
Two recent studies found that Avastin had some value in treating metastatic breast cancer.
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In other words, metastatic cancer the brand of cancer that kills us is an amazingly hard thing to initiate.
The policy switcheroo was particularly odd, given the fact that Avastin works for many women with metastatic breast cancer.
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The number of these vessels correlated strongly with the number of metastatic cells in the lymph nodes and lungs.
That thrilled lung specialists because metastatic lung cancer rarely responds to any drug.
These revealed that the cancer had spread to her brain, with at least nine metastatic growths across both hemispheres.
Suppose I was wrong, I wondered, and she proved to be that miracle patient who survived metastatic lung cancer?
These reductions were due mainly to a reduction by almost half in the proportion of adenocarcinomas that had metastatic disease.
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Novartis said it plans to file with regulatory agencies around the world seeking approval for Afinitor to treat metastatic breast cancer.
Nearly half of patients with cancer that has spread to organs other the original site of disease (metastatic disease) have cachexia.
Genentech is also seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration to use Avastin as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
"Metastatic breast cancer was always a 'Hail Mary, '" says Michael King , a sell-side biotech analyst at Bank of America Securities .
Dr. Lisa Carey, the oncologist treating Edwards, categorized the cancer as metastatic Stage 4 cancer, which is largely confined to the bones.
But survival was extended four months for patients with metastatic prostate cancer.
Osborne has been studying another AstraZeneca drug, Faslodex, in metastatic breast cancer.
Once, fear of opioid addiction within the medical community meant that people suffering from the excruciating pain of metastatic cancer went untreated.
Dr Feher said the results of the large study "demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of chemotherapy in elderly women with metastatic breast cancer".
Drug therapies for metastatic cancer can already cost several thousand dollars a month, and the longer a patient survives the higher the tab.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced that Avastin is no longer an approved drug to treat metastatic breast cancer.
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In March, the Food and Drug Administration cleared Yervoy, the first drug to extend the survival of patients with metastatic melanoma, by several months.
From 1986 to 2006, 5035 patients with prostate cancer were identified, including 642 patients with lethal prostate cancers, defined as fatal or metastatic .
He remembers one patient, a doctor, who went from being wasted and fatigued from his metastatic prostate cancer to being able to play golf again.
For example, there are two options in treating metastatic colon cancer.
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