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R.B. · 07-24-2006, 09:51 AM

This is a link to another article which is clearer but also raises issues...??

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Hematolo...herapy/tb/3789
ABSTRACT

"Women taking tamoxifen are more likely to develop estrogen-receptor (ER) negative tumors, which have a worse prognosis than ER-positive cancers. When that is taken into consideration, Dr. Melnikow and colleagues found, tamoxifen actually appears to reduce survival until the five-year breast cancer risk is at least 2.1%."

07-24-2006, 09:51 AM	#7
R.B. Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,843	This is a link to another article which is clearer but also raises issues...?? http://www.medpagetoday.com/Hematolo...herapy/tb/3789 ABSTRACT "Women taking tamoxifen are more likely to develop estrogen-receptor (ER) negative tumors, which have a worse prognosis than ER-positive cancers. When that is taken into consideration, Dr. Melnikow and colleagues found, tamoxifen actually appears to reduce survival until the five-year breast cancer risk is at least 2.1%."