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FDA Approves Pfizer’s New Breast Cancer Drug

| February 3, 2015 Comment

FDA Approves Pfizer’s New Breast Cancer Drug – The US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new breast cancer drug for treating aggressive and advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Called IBrance (palbociclib), the drug is for women who have tumors that do not contain a protein known as HER-2 and have not received […]

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New Breast Cancer Drug Extends Lives in Clinical Trial

New Breast Cancer Drug Extends Lives in Clinical Trial

| October 2, 2014 Comment

New Breast Cancer Drug Extends Lives in Clinical Trial – In a clinical trial, breast cancer patients lived an average of 15 months longer when they received new drug Perjeta along with Herceptin. Here’s some potential good news for breast cancer patients. Patients with advanced breast cancer were given the drug, Perjeta, in a clinical […]

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