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Other patients bear the real cost of Herceptin

The real cost of Herceptin is borne by other patients whose treatment has to be dropped to balance the books, say doctors in this week’s BMJ. New guidance from the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends trastuzumab (Herceptin) in early breast cancer, but it provides no extra funding and does not suggest what cuts should be made to release this extra money....
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Nurse wins her case over use of Herceptin for her Breast cancer

Barbara Clark, a former nurse who has been denied Herceptin earlier has won her case so that she can have Herceptin drug for her breast cancer treatment. Herceptin is a drug mostly used for resistant tumors, // patients who are positive for Her-2/neu genes are prescribed the drug, as Barbara Clark only had a early stage cancer which was diagnosed at the start of this year, the doctors...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

The drug Herceptin is to be recommended for breast cancer patients, who show positive for Her-2/neu. The presence of Her-2/neu indicates that the patient is positive, and they have a more resistant and active breast cancer, // about 30% of breast cancer women are Her-2/neu positive and the treatment for these patients with chemotherapy or anti-estrogen therapy such as Tamoxifen does not show any...

Herceptin Is A Possible Cure For Breast Cancer

The drug Herceptin is being hailed as a new 'wonder drug' after it was found to halve the risk of relapse in breast cancer patients. New results of the trials show that the drug can also serve as a potential cure //for the cancer, something that has never happened so far. In this particular study, which tracked 5,000 patients in 39 countries, researchers found that there were 220 case...

Herceptin Not A ‘Wonder’ Drug, Says The Lanct

After receiving glowing tributes for its miraculous properties, Herceptin, the breast cancer wonder drug came down to earth as the most respected British medical journal questioned its effectiveness//. "The available evidence is insufficient to make reliable judgments. It is profoundly misleading to suggest, even rhetorically, that the published data may be indicative of a cure for br...

￡6000 to be refunded to Mrs. Leese for Herceptin treatmen

Jo-Anne Leese of Cheshire will be refunded ￡6000 the amount of money she spent on the drug Herceptin for her breast cancer treatment.// The amount is to be refunded by the Central Cheshire Primary Care Trust from where she took her treatment. Mrs. Leese got her claims cleared for the drug after the verdict that Herceptin should be provided to patients who wanted Herceptin anti-cancer...

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Updated Overall Survival Data From Pivotal Herceptin Adjuvant Studies in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA)today announced updated results from a joint analysis of two PhaseIII clinical trials studying Herceptin(R) (trastuzumab) for theadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer. Data presentedat the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of ClinicalOncology (ASCO) showed that, with median follow-up of nearly threeyears...

Investigational Cancer Drug Pertuzumab Shows Promising Results in Advanced Breast Cancer When Combined with Herceptin

Investigational cancer drug Pertuzumab shows promising results inadvanced breast cancer when combined with Herceptin Phase IIIdevelopment initiated BASEL, Switzerland, June 4, 2007-Early clinical results fromRoche's trial of the exciting new cancer medicine pertuzumab, a HERdimerisation inhibitor, show substantial anti-tumour activity inpatients with pre-treated HER2 positive breast cance...
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