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Pfizer Announces Results From Trial Of AROMASIN In Postmenopausal Women With Hormone Sensitive Early Breast Cancer

Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationWomen's Health / OBGYN

Pfizer today announced results from a first planned analysis of the TEAM (Tamoxifen, Exemestane, Adjuvant, Multicenter) trial. TEAM was originally designed in 2001 as a comparison of 5 years of upfront AROMASIN® (exemestane tablets) vs. tamoxifen. In 2004, based on results of Intergroup Exemestane Study (IES) the TEAM trial design was revised; the tamoxifen arm was converted into a tamoxifen/AROMASIN sequencing arm.

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Higher Socioeconomic Status Linked To Healthier Behaviors

Dec 11th 2008Drug InformationWomen's Health / OBGYN

A new study revealed that women who had experienced socioeconomic adversity throughout their lives were less likely than women who had experienced such adversity not to eat healthily and were more likely to have smoked regularly at some point in their lives. Researchers examined the association of health behaviors and socioeconomic status in childhood and adult life among 3,523 women aged 60 to 79 years recruited from general practices in 23 British towns from 1999 through 2001.

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Study Finds Fibroid Growth Differences Between Black, White Women

Dec 4th 2008Drug InformationWomen's Health / OBGYN

Fibroid growth in women over age 35 declines with age for white women, but not for black women, which might explain why black women typically have more symptoms than white women, according to a study published in the December issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Reuters Health reports.

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