Tamoxifen gives protection against breast cancer at age 20

Daily tamoxifen It allows women to protect themselves from breast cancer for 20 years. That is the conclusion researchers from Queen Mary University in London.

Breast Cancer

Absolutely healthy women will be able to obtain protection breast cancer   on For 20 years or more, if every day they will take a pill Tamoxifen . In this case, the risk of severe illness is reduced by one third as the British found researchers. These results indicate that the use of regular admission Tamoxifen significantly higher than the risk of side effects, according to the study authors.

Particularly useful prophylactic administration of the drug is for the fair sex, who are particularly at risk because of the threat of breast cancer . Above all, this woman among relatives who have already been cases of the disease. During study 7151 women aged 35 to 70 years old, at risk, I received within 5 years or 20 mg of tamoxifen daily or such as the amount of a placebo for five years.

At the end of the experiment the health of these women were followed for an additional 16 years. It turned out that 350 Volunteers in the group on placebo developed breast cancer. In the group treated Tamoxifen, 251 sick woman. Thus, reduction of cancer risk by tamoxifen was 29%. But the risk of estrogenpolozhitelnogo invasive breast cancer, which accounts for two-thirds of all cases disease was reduced by 35%. (READ MORE)

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