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Breast Cancer
Reports outline breast cancer study findings from University of Texas
January 29th, 2009
"Endocrine therapy is often the preferred treatment option for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. However, as many patients eventually develop resistance there is a need for novel, efficacious and well-tolerated treatments that lack cross-resistance with current therapies," investigators in the United States report. "This review describes the development of fulvestrant (Faslodex (TM)), an estrogen receptor antagonist with a different and distinct mode of action and no agonist effects. Phase III clinical trials in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer have found fulvestrant at the approved dose of 250 mg/month to be at least as...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-29)
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