Choice Drug for Early Breast Cancer

On ongoing breast cancer study, the world's largest ever with over 9,000 patients involved, continues to show evidence supporting the superiority of anastrozole (Arimidex) over tamoxifen as adjuvant therapy for postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer.

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SAVING 7,000

Chemotherapy drugs have long been used to treat colon and breast cancer, but now there's evidence to show they can benefit lung cancer patients too. 

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Weapon of Mass Destruction

Top American cancer specialist has called tobacco a "weapon of mass destruction," and colleagues urged slapping an extra two-dollar-a-pack tax on cigarettes and banning smoking in more public places.    

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MRI Beats Mammogram

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may spot breast cancer in high-risk women better and earlier than conventional mammograms.

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Experimental Drug Buys More Time

An experimental drug that starves tumors of blood and oxygen extended the survival time of colorectal cancer patients by five months compared with conventional chemotherapy treatments, according to a study.

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"Age as a Bias Is Wrong"

Doctors may be denying older cancer patients potentially life-saving therapies out of misguided perceptions that their age makes them unsuitable candidates.

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Genetic Profiling Points Way to Tailored Therapy

Genetic profiling of cancer patients may enable doctors to tailor chemotherapy treatment to individual patients and even predict which patients will respond better to certain drugs, US cancer researchers said.

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