Late Treatment With Letrozole Can Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrenc...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 03/13/2008 - 22:00

Treatment with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence even when initiated one to seven years after a course of tamoxifen therapy.

Among women originally in the placebo arm of an international trial of letrozole who chose to begin letrozole treatment after the initial trial was halted, the risk that their cancer would recur was cut in half compared with those who never received letrozole.

...


 

More related items

Cancer Treatment: Selecting Patients Based On Genotype May...
Breast cancer patients who carry the wild-type gene required for tamoxifen metabolism may have comparable risk of recurrence when taking tamoxifen or...

Breast Cancer Prognosis: Response To Preventive HER2/neu...
A HER2 peptide E75 vaccine reduced mortality in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer by half, according to Texas researchers. In particular,...

High levels of estrogen associated with breast cancer recurrence
Women whose breast cancer came back after treatment had almost twice as much estrogen in their blood than did women who remained cancer-free --...

First Step Towards Switching Off Breast Cancer And Leukaemia
Scientists have identified a way to "switch off" a molecule, a key player in the molecular processes that trigger breast cancer and certain forms of...

Biochemistry: Board Review Series
BRS Biochemistry embodies the popular BRS format of succinct outline review of content followed by approximately 500 USMLE-style questions with...

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for...
Werner Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle” challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert...

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
Fresh insights into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.Although...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
science-nature.marc8.com