Drug that prevents half of breast cancers carries on working
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It is already available on the NHS, but researchers at Queen Mary University of London said only a tenth of eligible women were receiving it.Anastrozole can be given only after the menopause because it cannot suppress oestrogen in younger women. "Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women and continuing to rise very rapidly," Prof Jack Cuzick, the director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, told the BBC.Isn't this already available?
The academics say this suggests the side-effects are not severe enough to stop women taking the drug.However, a healthy cell does not become cancerous overnight. Instead it goes through multiple mutations that gradually morph it from healthy to cancerous."You're setting the clock back 20 years and you have to start from scratch to develop the cancer, which might take quite a long time," Prof Cuzick told the BBC.
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