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• New Drug Slows Thyroid Cancer

  July 3 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation slows ...

• Promising Cancer Treatment Ready for Human Trial

  June 30 (HealthDay News) -- A clinical trial will examine whether a new cancer treatment ...

• Breast Cancer Vaccines Look Promising

  June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women with metastatic breast cancer who developed an immune response ...

• Vaccine Stops Colon Cancer's Spread in Mice

  June 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new vaccine to treat and prevent metastatic colon cancer ...

• Cancer Drug Gleevec Could Fight Stroke

  June 23 (HealthDay News) -- A powerful weapon against cancer might also boost stroke patients' ...

• Cancer Drug Gleevec Linked to Muscle Damage

  June 18 (HealthDay News) -- French doctors have reported a possible new side effect associated ...

• Experimental Therapy Beats Back One Patient's Melanoma

  June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Patient "Number Four," taking part in an experimental melanoma treatment ...

• FDA Warns Companies to Stop Selling Fake Cancer Cures

  June 17 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent letters warning ...

• Gene Therapy Helps Dogs Stricken With Cancer

  June 16 (HealthDay News) -- A gene therapy that has extended the lives of dogs ...

• Cancer Drug Appears to Help with Aggressive MS

  June 12 (HealthDay News) -- High doses of a drug used to fight cancer may ...

• Raloxifene Cuts Risk of Certain Type of Breast Cancer

  June 11 (HealthDay News) -- A drug already approved to reduce the risk of breast ...

• Medicare Costs for Cancer Treatment Soar

  June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Costs for treating Medicare patients with cancer increased substantially from ...

• Tracking Cancer Drug's Effectiveness

  June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they can cheaply and easily track how effective ...

• Dangerous Side Effect Found in Cancer Immunotherapy Research

  June 3 (HealthDay News) -- When scientists first began looking into using the body's own ...

• Erbitux Works Well for Two-Thirds of Colon Cancer Patients

  June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Colon cancer patients who have the normal version of a ...

• Bone Drug Lowers Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- A drug used to treat osteoporosis lowered the risk of ...

• Erbitux Plus Chemo Improves Lung Cancer Outcomes

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- The long-awaited results of a trial of the biologic drug ...

• New Hope for Tough-to-Treat Cancers

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer -- which historically carries a ...

• Avastin Added to Chemo Helps Women with Advanced Cancer

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the drug Avastin to chemotherapy lengthened progression-free survival in ...