Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

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Reviewed August 2008

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Title:   Media release. New PBS listings for May 2008
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Women with advanced breast cancer, people with hypertension and people with osteoporosis will benefit from new listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Media release. New breast cancer drug to be subsidised
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   From May 1, women suffering from a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer will have access to a new drug, lapatinib (Tykerb), on the PBS.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   PBAC: taxanes
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The listing of trastuzumab on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in October 2006 was heralded with much fanfare. Along with this listing, changes to the prescribing requirements for taxanes also occurred.
Date:   Feb 2007

Title:   Side effects of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Research has shown that more than 50% of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy have some side effects ranging from nausea, tiredness and hair loss to concern about family members depression and dread of treatment.
Date:   Nov 2006

Title:   Chemotherapy clinical trials
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Clinical trials are studies involving patients conducted in order to help find better ways to prevent, diagnose or treat diseases.
Date:   Nov 2006

Title:   What's involved in chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   What's involved in chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer
Date:   Nov 2006

Title:   Listing of Herceptin on the PBS
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Government has accepted a recommendation from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) to list the drug trastuzumab (Herceptin?) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Date:   Oct 2006

Title:   Breast cancer
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Women who develop breast cancer may be at risk of osteoporosis.
Date:   Feb 2006

Title:   Cancer antibodies (Comment for consumers)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   To reduce side effects, new treatments are needed which will kill the cancer cells but not damage normal cells. One approach is to make antibodies against the cancer cells.
Date:   Dec 2003

Title:   Antineoplastic antibodies - clinical applications
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Trastuzumab and rituximab are genetically engineered antibodies which are now available for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma respectively.
Date:   Dec 2003

Title:   Chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Cells grow by dividing. Chemotherapy works by damaging cancer cells that are dividing. It travels around the body in the blood stream attacking cells.
Date:   Oct 2003
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