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For Some Breast Cancers, New Drug May Be Treatment Option
(Posted: 06/13/2012) - Results from an international clinical trial suggest that women with metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer that is no longer responding to the targeted therapy trastuzumab (Herceptin) may soon have a new treatment option. Women who received the investigational drug trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) lived more than 3 months longer without their tumors progressing than women who received the chemotherapy drug capecitabine (Xeloda) and the targeted drug lapatinib (Tykerb).

Exemestane Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in High-Risk Postmenopausal Women
(Posted: 07/19/2011, Updated: 03/07/2012) - Clinical trial results presented at the 2011 ASCO annual meeting showed that the aromatase inhibitor exemestane (Aromasin®)—commonly used to treat early and advanced-stage breast cancer—substantially reduced the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women at high risk of developing the disease.

Exemestane Following Tamoxifen Reduces Breast Cancer Recurrences and Prolongs Survival
(Posted: 02/01/2012) - Long-term follow-up data from a large international phase III trial shows that postmenopausal women with early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer who received 2 to 3 years of tamoxifen and then switched to the drug exemestane (Aromasin®) for a total of 5 years of adjuvant hormone therapy experienced a delay in disease recurrence and a survival advantage, compared with women who took tamoxifen for 5 years.

Combination Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Advanced Breast Cancer
(Posted: 12/21/2011) - Adding the drug everolimus (Afinitor®) to exemestane helped postmenopausal women whose advanced breast cancer had stopped responding to hormonal therapy live about 4 months longer without the disease progressing than women who received exemestane alone.

Two Drugs that Hit One Target Show Efficacy against Metastatic Breast Cancer
(Posted: 12/21/2011) - Combining two drugs that target the HER2 protein, trastuzumab (Herceptin®) and the investigational agent pertuzumab, with chemotherapy may be a new treatment option for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, according to results from a large clinical trial.

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