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...Other breast cancer experts deal directly with breast cancer victims, in clinical trials which explore methods by which an already existing disease can be stopped in its tracks...
...also being tested. Hayes cites taconite, an anti-estrogen drug, which has been demonstrated to reduce the likelihood of recurrent tumors, and taxol, a drug derived from Pacific yew trees which has been approved by the FDA for treatment of ovarian cancer and which may be a treatment for breast cancer...
...substantial progress in both genetic and clinical breast cancer research and higher rates of survival have instilled confidence in researchers and also in patients whose lives are affected daily by the disease...
...experts in the field admit that medicine is far from having conquered breast cancer...
Others are even less optimistic about progress to date. "We've just scratched the surface," says Norman L. Sadowsky, chief of radiology and director of the Faulkner-Sagoff Centre for breast health care. "In 25 years we'll look back and say 'they were really primitive in those days...