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...Anderson study, led by Donald Berry, chair of biostatistics, included women with all types of breast cancer, all at the beginning stages of the disease. All had tested positive for cancer in some lymph nodes even after surgery, but none had been diagnosed with cancer that had spread any further. While women receiving the treatment enjoyed a few extra cancer-free months before relapse, they did not survive any longer than women who never underwent the rigorous therapy. "I was surprised by the results," says Berry. "I was expecting some subsets of women to show some survival benefit. Many studies...
...This report should absolutely, definitively and for all time close the door on this treatment," says Dr. Larry Norton of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
Despite its negative results, Berry and Norton say the study holds a valuable lesson: that perhaps more important than the size of the dose is which chemo drug the doctor decides to use. Certain cancer cells will either respond to a drug or not - so boosting the dose, particularly of the wrong drug, is not likely to make any difference in these cases. Timing may also be key - spacing apart chemotherapy doses can increase the likelihood of catching tumor cells at their weakest. Taken together, lessons like these are making a difference where it counts most - in giving breast cancer...
...Cancer, commodities and China drove triple-digit price jumps this year (Jan. 1-Dec. 10), as did alternative energy...
Advances in cancer drugs are worth...