Most successful cancer treatment drugs.

For patients with rectal cancer, adding the cancer drug Avastin to radiation and chemotherapy improves the patients results.

It turns out that adding the highly controversial abortion pill, RU-486, to chemotherapy helps to kill ovarian cancer cells that escaped initial cisplatin treatment.

The drug Erbitux, developed by ImClone Systems, was recently found to be successful as an initial treatment for patients with advanced lung and colorectal cancers.

The drug, Avastin, helps to improve survival rates in patients with recurrent brain cancer.

Zometa, a drug used to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment, was found to substantially reduce the risk that the cancer would return.