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Researchers develop comprehensive new way to predict breast cancer risk
high risk who may benefit from taking the drug tamoxifen - as well as encouraging women to think about the ways they could reduce the...
Common hormone could help treat breast cancer
hormone oestrogen are treated with drugs like tamoxifen to block oestrogen receptors, which cause cancer cells to grow. Women whose...
Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention
most responsive to hormonal treatments like tamoxifen. Analysing this panel of 77 genetic markers – all of which had previously b...
New anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast cancer
when combined with the breast cancer drug tamoxifen in preclinical models. Approximately 70 per cent of breast cancers are...
Tamoxifen class drugs reduce breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high risk
Tamoxifen class drugs reduce breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high... Tamoxifen and three similar drugs reduce breast cancer incidence by 38 per cent in women... model of the tamoxifen molecule. (Image credit: Ben Mills, Own work, Public domain, Link) In the... tamoxifen, raloxifene, arzoxifene, lasofoxifene, selective oestrogen receptor modulators...
Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug
developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer [1]. The key lies in... Radiopaedia.org. From the case rID: 25751 Tamoxifen is a common hormone therapy drug that is usually given over a course of five... density, tamoxifen, breast...
Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival
treatment with anti-oestrogen drugs, such as tamoxifen, to try and reduce this risk.” Reference Weischer, M., Nordestgaard, B...
Scientists re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global study
has underpinned important drugs, such as tamoxifen and herceptin, which have saved the lives of many thousands of women with...
Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer
breast cancer who take the drug tamoxifen for five years after breast cancer surgery can cut their long-term chances of... drugs such as tamoxifen are often given to patients who have undergone breast cancer surgery in order... receptor positive breast cancer, tamoxifen,...
The future of breast cancer prevention
strong evidence to show that drugs such as tamoxifen are effective at preventing breast cancer in women with greater than average...
Trial results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer survival
results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer... patients to complete their full prescription of tamoxifen, following long-term results from a major Cancer Research UK-funded trial... back in around 40 per cent of the women who took tamoxifen for five years, compared to 46 per cent among those who took it for two years,... tamoxifen, recurrence, breast...
Tamoxifen's preventative role
Tamoxifen's preventative... Tamoxifen, taken by certain women as a preventive measure against breast cancer, saves... study's results suggest that the benefits of tamoxifen to prevent cancer can sufficiently compensate for its side effects in... tamoxifen, prevention, breast...
Study confirms risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatment
confirms risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen... that women who take the hormone therapy tamoxifen to reduce the risk of their breast cancer recurring are less likely to develop... Research UK said that the benefits of taking tamoxifen after a first diagnosis of breast cancer "far outweigh any potential... tamoxifen, oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer,...
Breast cancer four times more likely in women with strong family history
to offer preventative treatments – such as tamoxifen, which is given to most women with breast cancer to help prevent the disease...