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...surgically removed, doctors did nothing more unless there was a recurrence. Though 11% of the women did in fact develop a second cancer, their survival rate (and this is the key) was comparable to that of another group of women who had undergone chemotherapy (with or without the drug tamoxifen) at the time of their surgery...
...have to decide what to do with their lives and their breasts based on information currently available. There are days when many women would probably agree with Ulene's assessment that it's all a "crapshoot" anyway. After much soul-searching, she finally opted for a partial mastectomy and tamoxifen. It may not happen today. It may not happen tomorrow. But eventually those decisions will start to get easier...
Although a new class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors shows signs of being even more effective than tamoxifen at treating breast cancer, don't count the old drug out yet. Women who take tamoxifen might also be doing their hearts a favor. Though it's not clear what the mechanism is, tamoxifen appears to lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease, which kills 500,000 women each year, more than 10 times as many as breast cancer...
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...present, Delaney-Smith is using the drug tamoxifen, which she will continue to take for the next five years. Only 15 percent of the population tests positive to go on the drug, but for those who do, it significantly increases their survival rate...