Posts Tagged ‘cancer drugs’
Bone marrow stimulating drugs are beneficial in some cancer treatment circumstances, but dangerous in others. A group of drugs, Aranesp, Epogen, and Procrit, have been a vital component of cancer che...
Watch video Zoledronic acid (Zometa, Novartis) is an intravenous drug that can reduce or delay bone complications from bone metastases in patients with breast, prostate, and lung cancer as well as mu...
- Filed under: Breast Cancer, Experiencing Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Watch Video Capecitabine (XELODA, Roche) is the first FDA-approved oral chemotherapy for the treatment of both metastatic breast and colorectal cancers. The drug is approved for use in colorectal canc...
This is an opportunity to summarize results of a major international study involving over 8000 postmenopausal women with hormone positive breast cancers who received either Tamoxifen or letrazole (Fe...
- Filed under: Breast Cancer, Experiencing Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
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