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What if doctors had a pill that prevents breast cancer and nobody wanted to take it? That has pretty much been the situation with tamoxifen, an estrogen-like drug that was proved in 1998 to cut in half the chance of developing breast cancer if taken for five years by women with increased risk of the malignancy. The trouble is, tamoxifen also triggers menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and slightly increases the chances that a woman will develop blood clots and uterine cancer. As a result, women haven't been too eager to take the medication--nor have many doctors...
...comes word that another estrogen-like drug, called raloxifene, is as effective as tamoxifen at reducing the risk of breast cancer--at least in high-risk, postmenopausal women--with fewer of those side effects. According to preliminary results from the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR), raloxifene triggered fewer uterine cancers, blood clots and hot flashes than tamoxifen. It also decreased the chances of developing cataracts...
There are a number of caveats to bear in mind, however. Those results are preliminary and have not yet appeared in a peer-reviewed research journal--although the National Cancer Institute has posted a lot of information on its website cancer.gov/star) Women at high risk of cardiovascular problems were not included in the study since both drugs are known to increase the risk of blood clots. In addition, raloxifene is currently approved only for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis...
...that Republican allies have long prescribed for Bushworld and would bring irreverence to a place that hasn't seen a lot of fun lately. "White Houses are weird places," he told a 2004 panel on White House speechwriting. Snow had his colon removed after he was found to have cancer last year, but his doctors have approved the possibility of his taking the grueling post...
...gastrointestinal-tract damage. People living 5 to 7 miles from the accident could experience nausea and other symptoms but would be unlikely to die. Smaller amounts of radiation within a range of 60 miles from the site would result in significantly increased deaths from leukemia and other forms of cancer during the next 30 years. TIME...