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Breast cancer drugs may stop cancer, but they also cut life short due to toxicity

8/23/2011 - Here's another case of a so-called "wonder drug" heavily promoted by Big Pharma having a darker side than anyone knew. It turns out aromatase inhibitors (sold under the names Femara, Aromasin, and Arimidex), widely prescribed to huge numbers of women who've been diagnosed with estrogen receptor-positive...

Experimental cancer drugs killing far more people than they help

2/24/2011 - Experimental cancer drugs harm far more people than they help, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University Medical Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. "This sounds a cautionary note," lead researcher Jeffrey Peppercorn said. "In most cases, we should refrain...

Popular cancer drugs increase risk of death, study finds

2/5/2011 - A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed that the popular cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab) raises patients' risk of death by up to 350 percent when combined with chemotherapy. Designed to stop the production of new blood vessels in the body, and thus the...

Cancer Drugs Make Tumors Grow

11/17/2008 - Drugs like Avastin that are used to treat some cancers are supposed to work by blocking a vessel growth-promoting protein called vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF. With VEGF held in check, researchers have assumed tumors wouldn't generate blood vessels and that should keep malignancies from...

Merck to "pirate" Traditional Chinese Medicine compounds to develop new drugs, warns consumer health advocate

12/12/2006 - German pharmaceutical giant Merck announced last week that it would collaborate with a Chinese pharmaceutical company to develop new cancer drugs based on traditional Chinese herbs and botanical medicines. Hong Kong-based Chi-Med -- a pharmaceutical firm that develops consumer health products from...

Genentech sets price gouging limit for Avastin cancer drug

10/13/2006 - Earlier this week the pharmaceutical firm Genentech announced that it would institute a price cap for its cancer drug Avastin at $55,000 per year for patients with a household income of less than $75,000 a year. Genentech's announcement follows a decision by rival drug company Amgen two weeks ago...

Avastin cancer drug may cause brain bleeding, warns FDA

9/27/2006 - Genentech's cancer-fighting drug Avastin's label now includes warnings related to a rare brain-bleeding condition and deterioration of nasal tissue that both have been associated with the drug. The FDA's website now notes that Avastin can possibly cause a rare brain-capillary leak syndrome that can...

Prostate cancer drugs cause heart disease, diabetes

9/19/2006 - New research appearing in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that drugs frequently used to treat prostate cancer may significantly increase the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from Harvard Medical School examined data collected on more than...

"Miracle" cancer drug Glivec found to cause heart cell death, heart failure

9/11/2006 - A study of targeted cancer therapy Glivec (Imantinib mesylate) found that the treatment could cause heart failure, and moreover, could indicate side effect issues for other targeted therapies. The FDA approved Glivec in May of 2001 after 11 weeks of consideration -- the fastest review in the administration's...

Herceptin cancer drug causes heart damage in 28 percent of patients

8/15/2006 - A new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that the cancer drug Herceptin causes heart damage in 28 percent of its users. A team of researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center studied 173 patients with advanced breast cancer who had been taking Herceptin -- sometimes...

Tamoxifen found to be near useless in preventing cancer and saving lives

7/24/2006 - A report analyzing the breast-cancer-prevention drug tamoxifen suggests the pharmaceutical's anti-cancer effects don't translate into saved lives. The drug gained fame in the '90s after studies concluded it successfully prevented cancer. But a new computer-simulated study found tamoxifen to have...

Cancer drugs cause serious heart damage in nearly 75 percent of long-term patients

7/20/2006 - Dutch researchers from the University of Groningen have found that anti-cancer drugs such as anthracyclines not only damage the heart, but continue to worsen the heart over time. According to the researchers' study in the Annals of Oncology, doctors already knew that anthracyclines caused heart damage,...

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