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Viagra may fix prostate cancer too, finds study

Viagra can do a lot more than just add vigor to a man’s fading sex life. The impotence drug in adjunction with doxorubicin, a powerful anti-cancer drug, can effectively treat prostate cancer, findings of a new study show.

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According to the findings of the trial conducted by the researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center, the combination of the two drugs, Viagra and doxorubicin, reduced the size of prostate tumors and also lessened the damage to the heart.

Doxorubicin – The chemotherapy drug
Doxorubicin, a potent anti-cancer drug has been long used to treat a number of human cancers, including that of the prostate.

Breast cancer may soon be cured in six weeks

London, January 17 -- In what may transform breast cancer care, scientists claim to have developed a chemotherapy-drug course that might treat breast cancer in just six weeks, rather than through months of chemotherapy.

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Scientists from the University of Sheffield have found that a combination of drugs given to breast cancer patients on a regular basis may help destroy tumors in a shorter period of time.

A previous research by the same team showed that a combination of drugs--doxorubicin, a chemo drug usually given to stop tumor growth, and zoledronic acid, treatment given to protect bone in advanced breast cancer--had significantly reduced the cancerous tumors when given in a particular sequence.

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