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Word: antiestrogen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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Doctors have been treating breast cancer patients with tamoxifen, a drug used in very advanced cases, at an earlier stage of the disease. The theory: many if not most breast cancers are linked with the hormone estrogen. Tamoxifen is an antiestrogen agent that has shown a no table ability to halt the growth of estrogen-connected tumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Promising Drug | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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