Drugs used after and in addition to surgery are calledadjuvant therapy(辅助治疗). Chemotherapy or other types of therapy prior to surgery are calledneoadjuvant therapy(新辅助治疗). There are currently three main groups of medica...
According to the author, there are several alternative explanations for the higher breast cancer risk associated with women who had successful conceptions. She emphasizes the difficulties involved in interpreting fertility drug effects. She cites the major limitation of the study....
A class of drugs used to treat certain breast cancers could help to tackle lung cancers that have become resistant to targeted therapies, suggests a new study in mice from the Francis Crick Institute and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). The research, published inCell Reports, found that...
A new study from the University of Notre Dame shows drugs used to treat high cholesterol could interfere with the way breast cancer cells adapt to the microenvironment in the brain, preventing the cancer from taking hold. Patients with breast cancer who experience this type of metastasis typically...
Rx; used for heart failure, other heart problems. If given intravenously, avoid breastfeeding for 2 hours after dose.1 Because of the low levels of digoxin in breastmilk, amounts ingested by the infant are small and would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants.1...
Hormone therapy is used for most HR+ breast cancers and is often the first treatment given. It may be prescribed before surgery, after surgery, or if the cancer returns later. Selection of which drug is based on whether you are pre- or postmenopausal. They are usually taken for 5 to 10...
Most laxatives, if used intermittently in the absence of contraindications, are relatively safe. Bulking agents may diminish absorption of some minerals an
this study tested it as an initial treatment.The study was stopped early because men on Zytiga were living longer — 66 percent were alive after three years versus 49 percent of a comparison group not given the drug. Zytiga also delayed the time until cancer worsened — 33 months versus 15...
Dr. Deming used to say that you must understand the process before you can either fix it or improve it. Without a fundamental understanding of the process, you can only put temporary fixes on a problem. Something we can compare to taking ibuprofen for a sore shoulder or a painful knee. ...
Jager added: "The finding that tamoxifen without an LHRH agonist led to a pronounced increase of E2 levels after 3 and 6 months of treatment is not new, although the degree of the increase is somewhat unexpected." But she cautioned that the endpoint used in the study did not answer the ...