New cancer studies published yesterday are generating considerable excitement and anticipation among cancer specialists, who said in interviews that the results are some of the strongest data seen in years for new breast cancer therapies.

"This is an exciting time; it's a crazy time, e-mails flowing one way and another,'' he said. "We're all talking. We have not been so active in a long time."

The two drugs tested in patients with advanced breast cancer significantly lengthened the time before their tumors worsened.

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