Health News: [cancer]

Sponsored Link Special Offer - Free Trial of Blockbuster.com Rent Movies from Blockbuster.com. Delivered Direct To Your Mailbox. Click here to start today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 01, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:38 PM PDT U.S. approves Spectrum Pharma's purchase of Allos http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-approves-spectrum-pharmas-purchase-allos-003834927--finance.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust officials have approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals' purchase of cancer drugmaker Allos Therapeutics, a $206 million deal aimed at giving Spectrum access to the Allos anti-cancer drug Folotyn. The Federal Trade Commission posted letters on its web site sent to lawyers for Allos and Spectrum dated August 28 which said it had been investigating the deal but had ... Reuters via Yahoo! News, Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:27 PM PDT FDA approves Medivation prostate cancer drug http://news.yahoo.com/fda-approves-medivation-prostate-cancer-drug-173815739--finance.html (Reuters) - A novel prostate cancer drug developed by Medivation Inc and Astellas Pharma Inc has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for men whose cancer has spread despite treatment with hormone therapy and chemotherapy, the agency said on Friday. Approval of the pill, to be sold under the brand name Xtandi, comes three months ahead of the agency's late-November decision ... See more health stories that match your keyword at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-health&c=&p=cancer+%2bcat%3ahealth&ei=utf-8 Visit Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.com/ You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use http://us.rd.yahoo.com/alerts/b/email/unsubscribe/*http://alerts.yahoo.com/unsubscribe.php?id=vtGMszMuNLPoTgrka7CNDOiD5A_Tk6wGucE7_sRvKpHwJXwZjFaueJEDjqQIH4365RTYhrpotJfS1AJrUVNpBPm5SKBBRiC7_VzO to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.done=http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount . To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, please read our privacy policy at http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ . Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.