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...National Cancer Institute (NCI) said in a statement in May that it would make research on these compounds a high priority, but so far it has been unsuccessful in replicating Folkman's results in similar studies...
...NCI's concerns were reported in an article in The Wall Street Journal last Thursday...
With a computer, of course. The NCI has developed a program that enables a woman, in conjunction with her health-care provider, to calculate her own risk of developing breast cancer by answering a series of questions about her medical and family history. You can order the program, which is formatted on a regular 3 1/2-in. floppy disc (available for Windows or Mac), free at cancertrials.nci.nih.gov or by calling 800-4-CANCER. You'll probably have to wait a few weeks to receive it, since the NCI has already mailed out most of the copies it had on hand. Zeneca...
...essence, the risk disc determines whether or not you would have been eligible to take part in the NCI trial. Participants had to demonstrate at least a 1.7% risk of developing breast cancer over the next five years. On average, theirs was twice that. An important fact to note: this percentage is not the same as a woman's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, which is naturally higher...
...that taking the drug for five years will lower your risk for the rest of your life, but that hasn't been proved. "The disc can't give you all the information you need to make a decision," says Dr. Barnett Kramer, deputy director of cancer prevention at the NCI. "But it can help you begin the process...