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...DONE Cancers can be frozen or vaporized with lasers or high-energy radiowaves delivered by a probe through a tiny incision. In one technique, the probe opens like an umbrella inside the breast...
...AVAILABILITY Already used for liver tumors. Clinical trials for breast cancer are under way, but could take five years to complete...
Five years ago, doctors and their patients hailed tamoxifen, which was the first drug approved for reducing the risk of getting breast cancer (rather than just treating it). But tamoxifen is far from perfect. It increases the risk of uterine cancer and potentially fatal blood clots. Raloxifene appears to provoke fewer side effects, but the results from a head-to-head study comparing the two drugs won't be available until...
...designer estrogen. Raloxifene, it turns out, is most effective for the postmenopausal women who have naturally high levels of estrogen. Other tests suggest that tamoxifen offers little or no benefit to women who carry the BRCA1 mutation, one of two genetic mutations known to cause an inherited form of breast cancer, but it can help lower the risk of breast cancer in women carrying a variation of the gene called BRCA2. For now, women who are taking tamoxifen should continue doing so. But in the future, doctors will almost certainly have more drugs to choose from. They may, for example...
Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are still the first line of defense against breast cancer. But exciting new techniques are entering clinical trials and, if they work, may eventually replace the old standards with kinder, gentler treatments...