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08-27-2009, 08:20 AM
Breast cancer patients taking a long-term course of the estrogen-blocker tamoxifen, which has been used widely to prevent recurrences of hormone-sensitive breast cancer, might have four times the risk of developing "an uncommon but aggressive" new tumor that is not estrogen-sensitive, according to a new

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