A second member of a new class of drugs has proved more effective than the gold standard, tamoxifen, at preventing breast cancer from recurring in women who received the medicine as initial therapy ...

According to a new study by a team of researchers led by the Queen Mary University of London, women who have been prescribed Tamoxifen as a cancer preventive are failing to take the medicine owing to ...

A second member of a new class of drugs has proved more effective than the gold standard, tamoxifen, at preventing breast cancer from recurring in women who received the medicine as initial therapy ...

Despite the perception of many oncologists that tamoxifen is an inferior drug, and should be substituted by an aromatase inhibitor in post-menopausal women, the current evidence strongly supports the ...

Tamoxifen is currently a drug used in the treatment of breast cancer, and has been used in patients for many years. Now, latest research has indicated that Tamoxifen may hold the potential in treating ...

Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance to the widely-used drug, new research suggests. Taking a leukemia chemotherapy ...

The effects of tamoxifen, a therapy used in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer, may be limited by the use of a commonly prescribed drug to prevent side effects of the treatment, according ...

The ability of an experimental drug known as GW5638 to change the shape of the estrogen receptor is helping researchers understand why drugs like tamoxifen and raloxifene behave the way they do, ...

Treatment cuts risk of death and recurrence, but some women still go without. July 29, 2011— -- For women diagnosed with hormone-sensitive breast cancer-- more than 150,000 in the U.S. each year- ...

Tamoxifen is a well-known drug that was originally discovered by what is now AstraZeneca. This drug was originally screened in a development program centered on the introduction of new contraceptive ...

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson demonstrate drug combination's 'antioxidant effect' on cancer cells and fibroblasts PHILADELPHIA-Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help ...