Afflicted with breast cancer, Rachel Midgett, center,  has been taking the drug Afinitor for the last nine months and said that the cancer has not progressed in that time period, longer than other cancer drugs she has taken in the past.
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Afflicted with breast cancer, Rachel Midgett, center, has been taking the drug Afinitor for the last nine months and said that the cancer has not progressed in that time period, longer than other cancer drugs she has taken in the past.

Big promise seen in two new breast cancer drugs

The Associated Press

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SAN ANTONIO — Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.

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