Reports that a scientific advisory panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration voted to approve the drug, tamoxifen, as a preventative measure in reducing the incidence of breast cancer in healthy women who are at high risk for developing breast cancer. In-depth look at the concerns...
Tamoxifen, meanwhile, is commonly prescribed to women who have had breast cancer as a way to prevent its return. "For years, tamoxifen has been the standard hormone therapy for preventingbreast cancerrecurrence in young women with hormone sensitive disease," said lead study author Olivia Pagani, ...
Researchers from Wuhan and Shanghai announced that a molecular targeted synthetic drug called WYC-209 could kill or inhibit the proliferation of stem cells of melanoma and lung, ovarian, and breast cancers. Through experiments on mice, researchers found that the drug can also prevent metastasis of ...
Dr. Nicol has received $438,000 from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation for further investigating how environmental chemicals and poor diets contribute to breast cancer risk, and determining how this protein acts to prevent breast cancer progression. He also hopes to identify whether foods containin...
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers discovered that a widely-used osteoporosis drug might prevent the spread of a particular aggressive form of breast cancer that typically affects younger, premenopausal women. A study published on Friday in the Journal of Experimental Medicine revealed...
British scientists said today that a preliminary study showed that a controversial drug therapy used to prevent breast cancer in high-risk women can cause womb abnormalities associated with uterine cancer. The study on the effects of tamoxifen is likely to deepen concern over a bigger British trial...
Drug to Treat Cancer May Also Prevent New CasesDOCTORS HAVE discovered that a drug which improves the survival rate of women with breast cancer could be used to stop the cancers from forming in healthy young women.Norton, Cherry
a, 2,025 drug combinations were screened in breast, colon and pancreas cancer cell lines (n = 125). Synergy was evaluated on the basis of efficacy (ΔEmax) and potency (ΔIC50) for 108,259 drug responses and integrated with cell line molecular features to identify biomarkers.b, Heat...
Willingness to take drugs to prevent serious chronic diseases. of taking a drug that could halve their chance of developing each disease, assuming a 1-year risk of developing the disease of 50%, 25%, and 10%... KJ Jerzak,S Pallan,HC Gerstein - 《Journal of Diabetes》 被引量: 9发表...
Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE.