1.   Also increasing were shares of Genentech, which received approval from an FDA panel for Herceptin, the brand name for a biological drug to treat metastatic breast cancer.

2.   Adriamycin, also called doxorubicin, is the most widely used chemotherapy drug for fighting metastatic breast cancer, or cancer that has spread beyond the breast.

3.   By that time, she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that had spread to her colon.

4.   Genentech hopes to know by year end whether Avastin slows the spread of metastatic breast cancer.

5.   In small, limited trials it has also shown a measurable response against ovarian cancer and metastatic breast cancer.

6.   Once metastatic breast cancer hits, few victims survive more than several years.

7.   So could safe and effective drugs for metastatic breast cancer and inoperable brain cancers.

8.   The allogeneic bone marrow transplant has been used in the past year on several metastatic breast cancer patients in Texas, all of whom are healthy so far.

9.   The changes, they report, are caused by free radicals and can be tracked as they progress from normal to metastatic breast cancer.

10.   The Liposome drug is being designed to treat metastatic breast cancer, or breast cancer that is spreading.