Recent news on Tamoxifen

Denial of Certiorari in Tamoxifen Case Recommended by the ...  -  25 May 2007
Seeking Alpha,Aaron F. Barkoff submits: According to articles published in the Antitrust Review and Pharmalot, the Solicitor General has recommended that the Supreme

Women with breast cancer do not get life-saving information  -  25 May 2007
HULIQ,Aromatase inhibitors, a newer class of endocrine drugs, have been shown to be significantly more effective than tamoxifen in reducing the chance of breast

Patients suffer when labs get it wrong  -  May 24, 2007
Globe and Mail,Of the 317 patients with inaccurate test results, 104 had their treatment changed, including 96 who were prescribed Tamoxifen. From this flurry of numbers,

LHRH-Analogues Beneficial in Premenopausal Women With Hormone ...  -  May 22, 2007
Medscape (subscription)It adds, however, that "in women with higher-risk disease, chemotherapy followed by tamoxifen should still be the standard approach, with the addition of an

Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer  -  May 17, 2007
WSOCtv.com,One treatment for breast cancer is a drug, called tamoxifen. The drug interferes with the activity of the hormone, estrogen, which fuels the growth of some

Top Drugs to Prevent Breast Cancer  -  May 22, 2007
DentalPlans.com,For more information on tamoxifen and other drugs, visit www.cancer.org. These are medications that are an alternative to chemoprevention, a procedure that

Best Breast Cancer Prevention Drugs  -  May 21, 2007
DentalPlans.com,One of the most popular SERMS is Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen, as well as, other SERMs act like estrogen within some tissues but block estrogen's effect in others.

Tamoxifen Could Cause Vision Problems In Some Patients  -  May 9, 2007
WTVQ,Thousands of American women take the drug Tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer. But new research suggests this lifesaving medication may be

Tamoxifen & Vision Problems  -  May 9, 2007
CBS 5 - Green Bay,...(WFRV) PORTLAND, OR Thousands of American women take the drug tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer. But new research suggests this lifesaving

Study Confirms Tamoxifen Prevents Breast Cancer In High-Risk Women  -  May 7, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Women at high risk for breast cancer who have undergone a hysterectomy appear to benefit from taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer, according to an

New Treatment for Young Women with Breast Cancer  -  May 21, 2007
Insider Medicine,A molecule that blocks a hormone released from the brain, alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy or tamoxifen, provides an additional benefit in women

Luteinising-Hormone-Releasing Hormone Agonists May Be Effective ...  -  May 21, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),In premenopausal women who are candidates for endocrine therapy, tamoxifen remains the treatment of choice. Another approach to endocrine therapy in these

Tamoxifen Protects Certain Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer  -  May 2, 2007
Forbes,WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Tamoxifen helps prevent breast cancer in women at high risk for the disease who have also had their ovaries removed as

Tamoxifen Prevents Breast Cancer in High-Risk Women, Study Confirms  -  May 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Women at high risk for breast cancer who have undergone a hysterectomy appear to benefit from taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer,

Tamoxifen Treatment and New-Onset Depression in Breast Cancer Patients  -  May 3, 2007
Psychosomatics (subscription)The hazard-ratio for new-onset depression in the tamoxifen group was nonsignificant. A post-hoc analysis revealed that chemotherapy and ER+ status were

Breast Cancer Progression, Tamoxifen Sensitivity, And DNA Reversion  -  May 2, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),These articles describe advances in our understanding of progression of breast cancer, local cells affecting tamoxifen sensitivity, and epigenetic reversion

Cells affect tamoxifen sensitivity  -  Apr 30, 2007
Earthtimes.orgDETROIT, April 30 Breast-cancer cells that express estrogen receptor can be treated with tamoxifen only as long as they remain sensitive to the drug,

New hormone treatments can fight certain breast cancers  -  May 21, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),When the researchers combined LHRH agonists with chemotherapy or tamoxifen, disease recurrence was reduced by a further 13%, and death by 15%.

AUA 2007 - SBUR and SUO Session: Donald S. Coffey Lecture ...  -  May 20, 2007
UroToday,Systemic approaches to inhibit estrogen include blocking estrogen binding to ER using tamoxifen or inhibit estrogen biosynthesis using aromatase inhibitors.

Over 1600 Potential Interactions Between Natural Products and ...  -  May 21, 2007
Emediawire (press release),Red clover interacts with tamoxifen. Breast cancer patients on tamoxifen often have hot flashes and often take supplements to try to stop hot flashes.

Bernard Fisher, MD, Honored By Friends of the National Library of  -  May 21, 2007
WebWire (press release),Realizing that breast cancer is a systemic disease, in subsequent trials he established the effectiveness of treatment using chemotherapy and/or tamoxifen.

Ovarian Suppression Has Role in Premenopausal Breast Cancer Therapy  -  May 18, 2007
MedPage Today,Explain to patients who ask that this study suggests that the addition of LHRH agonists to tamoxifen and or chemotherapy, or both, may reduce the risk of

Ovarian Drugs to Treat Breast Cancer?  -  May 18, 2007
FOX NewsBreast cancer drugs that target estrogen include tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors. Those drugs work differently from LHRH agonists.

New breast cancer treatment may dispense with the need for ...  -  May 21, 2007
News-Medical.net,The researchers say that when LHRH agonists were combined with chemotherapy or Tamoxifen, the combined treatment reduced a woman's risk for breast cancer

Dr Sarah: Contact nutritionist and medical herbalist to help you ...  -  May 20, 2007
Sunday Life,THE prescription-only drugs clonidine, megestrol or venlafaxine have been used to reduce hot flushes in women receiving Tamoxifen and they can reduce

New Hormone Treatment Fights Certain Breast Cancers  -  May 18, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription),When LHRH agonists were combined with chemotherapy or tamoxifen, the combined treatment reduced a woman's risk for breast cancer recurrence by almost 13

Opposition calls for judicial probe into breast cancer testing  -  May 18, 2007
CBC Montreal,Of the 317 patients excluded through faulty hormone receptor tests, 104 patients required a change in treatment, with most being put on Tamoxifen.

Consider risk/benefit ratio with medications  -  May 21, 2007
Monterey County Herald,For example, Evista appears to be indicated in preventing recurrence of breast cancer, and it may eventually replace Tamoxifen, which causes more side

Femara® Reduces Risk of Early Recurrence of Breast Cancer  -  May 11, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),These therapies include tamoxifen as well as agents known as aromatase inhibitors. Tamoxifen acts by blocking estrogen receptors, whereas aromatase

Cancer drug offers new hope to young women  -  May 17, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,Researchers found that using LHRH agonists on top of normal chemotherapy or Tamoxifen - a hormonal drug - improves survival chances for women with

Upfront Femara® Reduces Risk of Early Recurrence of Breast Cancer  -  May 15, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),An early breast cancer recurrence occurred in 3.1% of women treated with Femara and 4.4% of the women treated with tamoxifen.

Health Alert: Breast cancer treatment may affect vision  -  May 10, 2007
WIS,NATIONAL (NBC) - Tamoxifen is used because it interferes with the activity of estrogen, which fuels the growth of some breast cancer cells.

New website for five year breast cancer sufferers  -  May 18, 2007
UK Parents Lounge,The five-year point is even more of a milestone for those taking tamoxifen, the five-year hormone treatment known to be the gold standard for women with

Horomone therapry drugs may offer chemo-free breast cancer cure  -  May 18, 2007
NewKerala.com,A report on the latest British trials, published in The Lancet, suggested that such drugs could improve the effectiveness of both chemotherapy or tamoxifen,

NS breast cancer tests trustworthy, official says  -  May 20, 2007
ChronicleHerald.ca,...patient’s treatment because, if they are found to be estrogen- and/or progesterone-positive, they may respond to hormone therapy such as Tamoxifen.

Newly Published Study Reveals Femara(R) Improves Chances for ...  -  Apr 30, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),However, there were 30 percent fewer distant recurrences in the Femara group than in the tamoxifen group (87 vs. 125, respectively)(1).

Breast Cancer Prevention Trial in Limbo  -  May 8, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),There is abundant evidence that raloxifene is as effective as tamoxifen but that aromatase inhibitors are even more so, according to Paul Goss, MD, PhD,

Neglected pills: Prescriptions won't work unless you take them  -  May 8, 2007
Dailyrecord.com,Irish researchers reported in January that 22 percent of the breast cancer patients they had studied stopped taking tamoxifen by the end of a year,

Breast Cancer Milieu: Progression, Tamoxifen Sensitivity, And DNA ...  -  26 Apr 2007
Science Daily (press release)Breast cancer cells that express estrogen receptor (ER) can be treated with tamoxifen only as long as they remain sensitive to the drug.

WELL, WELL, WELL  -  26 Apr 2007
VUE Weekly,Breast cancer mortality rates might be slightly down, but post-surgery drugs such as Tamoxifen are likely most responsible—and this too creates a distorted

Celera Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2007 Results  -  26 Apr 2007
Business Wire (press release),FL, supporting Celera’s multi-gene expression prognostic constellation as a predictor of distant metastasis in Tamoxifen-treated breast cancer patients.

Celera and LabCorp(R) Announce Licensing Agreement to ...  -  26 Apr 2007
PR Newswire (press release),Subsequent presentations at scientific meetings(1) described the utility of Celera's breast cancer findings in Tamoxifen-treated patients.

What side will the "reform" advocates take?  -  26 Apr 2007
Tort Deform,At issue is the patent for tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancer that has become the most widely used cancer drug in the world.

Cisplatin-Sensitive Breast Tumors My Be Identified By Molecular ...  -  26 Apr 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...for the hormones estrogen or progesterone, and in recent years antiestrogen drugs like tamoxifen have improved outcomes for women with those tumors.

Take prescriptions as directed: Study found only half of people ...  -  Apr 24, 2007
Sauk Valley Newspapers,Irish researchers reported in January that 22 percent of the breast cancer patients they had studied stopped taking tamoxifen by the end of a year,

Breast Cancer Deaths Decline More Slowly for Some  -  Apr 24, 2007
Cancerpage.com,..."We speculate that these trends are at least partly due to mammography screening and the widespread use of tamoxifen in the 1990s," Jatoi commented.

Switching from Tamoxifen to Aromatase Inhibitor Improves Survival ...  -  Apr 11, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),For many years tamoxifen, acts by blocking estrogen receptors, has been a mainstay of hormonal therapy for breast cancer. More recently, however, drugs

Switch from Tamoxifen to Aromatase Inhibitor May Improve Breast ...  -  Apr 11, 2007
Cancerpage.com,NEW YORK APR 11, 2007 (Reuters Health) - Switching from tamoxifen to an aromatase inhibitor improves survival in early breast cancer, compared with

Chemo plus tamoxifen improves survival, ovary suppression don't  -  Apr 12, 2007
TopCancerNews.com,All had received five years worth of treatment with tamoxifen therapy with or without standard chemotherapy. Some premenopausal women were also treated with

Breast cancer deaths decline more slowly for some  -  Apr 23, 2007
Scientific American..."We speculate that these trends are at least partly due to mammography screening and the widespread use of tamoxifen in the 1990s," Jatoi commented.

Chemotherapy and tamoxifen combination improves survival for early ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
News-Medical.net,Patients with early-stage breast cancer who are treated with both chemotherapy and tamoxifen have a higher survival rate than patients who receive only

Chemotherapy Plus Tamoxifen Aids Breast Cancer Patients  -  Apr 3, 2007
Washington Post,But a second study found that a combination of tamoxifen and ovarian-suppression treatment to stop the ovaries from functioning provided no extra benefits

Chemotherapy Plus Tamoxifen Improves Survival of Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 4, 2007
Medscape (subscription)NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 03 - Adding chemotherapy to tamoxifen improves the survival of early breast cancer, but adding ovarian ablation/suppression

Tamoxifen/Chemo Combo Improves Suvival in Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 4, 2007
Cancerpage.com,NEW YORK APR 03, 2007 (Reuters Health) - Adding chemotherapy to tamoxifen improves the survival of early breast cancer, but adding ovarian

Secret AstraZeneca Audio Tapes: Violation of Corporate Integrity ...  -  Apr 22, 2007
OpEdNews,AstraZeneca has an Arimidex versus tamoxifen study called ATAC. 2. Novartis has a letrozole versus tamoxifen study called BIG 1-98.

Tristar Technology Enables Gene Finding That Could Lead To ...  -  Apr 18, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),..."The findings of this study could lead to genetic tests to determine when and whether tamoxifen should be prescribed as an effective breast cancer treatment

Studies Evaluate Combined Adjuvant Therapy for Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 16, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),A second Phase III trial, published in the same issue, did not find an overall benefit of adding ovarian suppression to treatment with tamoxifen among

TriStar Enables Gene Finding That Could Lead to Personalized ...  -  Apr 16, 2007
WebWire (press release),The study, "Estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) gene amplification is frequent in breast cancer and predicts response to tamoxifen", co-authored by Ronald Simon,

Amplification of ESR1 Gene Seen in a Fifth of Breast Cancers  -  Apr 16, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),They report that such patients are more likely to respond positively to the widely used estrogen blocking drug tamoxifen than are patients who do not carry

How to Fight Cancer & Win  -  Apr 18, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Tamoxifen For Breast Cancer Prevention Does Not Benefit Most Women (July 24, 2006) -- Most women at high risk for breast cancer do not increase their life

Clinical Trials Update: Adjuvant Trastuzumab, Adjuvant Endocrine ...  -  Apr 18, 2007
DG NewsIn explaining the issue of adjuvant endocrine therapy, Dr. Burstein commented on the use of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors. He cited recent studies with

Studies Evaluate Combined Adjuvant Therapy for Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 9, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),According to the results of a Phase III clinical trial published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the addition of chemotherapy to tamoxifen

Why my struggle to be given new cancer therapy was worth it  -  Apr 21, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,While her treatment is now over, Mrs McPeake will remain on the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen for around five years. The Co Londonderry woman,

Combo Therapies Work Best for Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 8, 2007
drkoop.comNew research shows women who receive both chemotherapy and Tamoxifen end up living longer than those who receive tamoxifen alone.

Combining Therapies Can Improve Survival For Early-stage Breast ...  -  Apr 3, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Patients with early-stage breast cancer who are treated with both chemotherapy and tamoxifen have a higher survival rate than patients who

Combining Therapies Can Improve Survival for Early-Stage Breast ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
DG NewsOXFORD, UK -- April 4, 2007 -- Patients with early-stage breast cancer who are treated with both chemotherapy and tamoxifen have a higher survival rate than

Combo Therapies Work Best for Early Breast Cancer  -  Apr 3, 2007
Ivanhoe,New research shows women who receive both chemotherapy and tamoxifen end up living longer than those who receive tamoxifen alone.

Breast cancer drug 'gene target'  -  Apr 9, 2007
BBC News,Women with extra copies of the gene, which carries DNA code for an oestrogen receptor, had tumours that were more likely to respond to tamoxifen.

OncotypeDX™ Effectively Guides Breast Cancer Treatment  -  Apr 3, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),Using the RS-guided approach, low-risk women would be treated with tamoxifen alone, and intermediate- and high-risk women would be treated with tamoxifen

Medicine not taken falls into sickly web  -  Mar 28, 2007
USA TodayAnother study out in January found a similar lack of adherence to tamoxifen, which has been shown to reduce the risk of a breast cancer recurrence in women

Gene May Mark Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Skip Chemotherapy  -  Apr 9, 2007
BloombergESR1S's expression in breast cancer makes a patient eligible for hormone drugs like tamoxifen, which binds to the estrogen receptors created by the gene.

Over 10000 UK Breast Cancer Patients Could Become Eligible Within ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Types of hormone therapies include tamoxifen and three aromatase inhibitors recently approved by the NICE. About 13% of newly diagnosed early stage breast

Gene points to effective cancer treatment  -  Apr 11, 2007
Medical Laboratory World,This means that ESR1 could potentially be used to identify women who would most benefit from oestrogen-blocking drugs such as tamoxifen, sparing them from

Estrogen Receptor Gene Amplification Common, Clinically Important ...  -  Apr 9, 2007
Cancerpage.com,Moreover, among 175 breast cancers from women who had undergone adjuvant anti-estrogen receptor monotherapy with tamoxifen, survival was significantly

Combined treatment ups survival of breast cancer  -  Apr 4, 2007
Reuters Canada,NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding chemotherapy to the estrogen-blocking drug tamoxifen improves the survival of early breast cancer, according to the

Combined treatment ups breast cancer survival  -  Apr 4, 2007
China Post,Adding chemotherapy to the estrogen-blocking drug tamoxifen improves the survival of early breast cancer, according to the results of two studies conducted

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