Since 1990, Von Hoff says, there have been 34 late-stage trials of drugs aimed at late-stage pancreatic cancer, including this one.
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Finding cancers early saves many times that amount compared with the cost of late-stage cancer treatment, she notes.
Dr. James Lah, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, likens this to late-stage cancer.
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He points to two late stage lung cancer vaccine trials that could remove any remaining uncertainty about the potential future of cancer vaccines.
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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At a meeting of oncologists the two companies were slated to present impressive results of human trials, suggesting the drugs added months to the lives of late-stage cancer patients.
However, I take offence at putting a price cap on saving the lives of tens of thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends with dense breast tissue who suffer unnecessarily and die needlessly from late stage breast cancer due to missed detection of mammographic screenings.
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One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
As in late-stage colon cancer, overall median survival was extended by only a few months.
Two different personalized medicines were approved for use last year, including a new treatment for late-stage breast cancer.
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Women without insurance were 2.4 times as likely to have late-stage breast cancer upon diagnosis than women with private insurance.
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Given a diagnosis of late-stage lung cancer, Walt took up cooking meth to build a nest egg and, later on, to pay his medical bills.
It's very important, however, says Saltz, to keep in perspective that Eloxatin is by no means a cure for late-stage colorectal cancer, and that it does not represent a breakthrough in the way cancer is treated.
But for women with the most advanced breast cancers, one-year survival ranged from 53% in the UK to 67% in Sweden - and there was still a 14% difference between the UK and Sweden in three-year survival for those with late-stage breast cancer.
He now has 12 drugs in the pipeline, half in late stage, to treat cancer, ulcerative colitis and hepatitis C.
Separately, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) used similar chips in its late-stage clinical studies of its cancer drug, Velcade.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved vandetanib to treat adult patients with late-stage (metastatic) medullarythyroid cancer who are ineligible for surgery and who have disease that is growing or causing symptoms.
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Last year, Avastin failed to help breast cancer patients in a late-stage trial.
In recently completed late-stage trials Acomplia helped people quit their cancer sticks and lose an average of 19 pounds, four times as much as those who got a placebo.
Gold says the evidence for Provenge is stronger than for other new cancer treatments, with three different late-stage studies showing a combined survival benefit.
Pharmion has a treatment for small cell lung cancer that is about to enter a late-stage clinical trial.
Late last year, Upshaw was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
Based on the new resultsRoche is planning to launch a late-stage trial of its PD-L1 inhibitor in lung-cancer patients, while Bristol-Myers is moving its combination regimen into late-phase studies as well.
He attributes his interest to the days when his good friend, the late Levon Helm of The Band, then suffering from stage 3 throat cancer, went back on the road after his stream of record royalties dried up.
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In a late-stage clinical trial, Avastin failed to help patients with metastatic breast cancer.
There is also growing concern that problems such as prostate and testicular cancer are ignored by men until they are at a late stage when treatment is not as effective.
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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Among the bargain stocks, Berry says, is Cell Genesys (nasdaq: CEGE - news - people ), which has a number of products in late stage-three trials, including a vaccine for non-small cell lung cancer.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) shares have doubled since May when a late-stage 900-patient study showed that Avastin significantly extended the lives of colorectal cancer patients.
Read said Pfizer's mid- to late-stage drug pipeline "continues to strengthen with key potential opportunities, " including drugs for advanced breast cancer and three other types of cancer, one for high cholesterol and a meningococcal B vaccine for adolescents and young adults.
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