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Christine MH-UK · 01-08-2009, 01:23 PM

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/n...ory_73572.html

The article is about an animal study of the anti-cancer potential of digoxin, but mentions that
a long-term retrospective study of 175 women with breast cancer found that 6 percent of women on digitalis-based drugs died following breast cancer versus 34 percent without. Of course, the numbers were probably small.

01-08-2009, 01:23 PM	#1
Christine MH-UK Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 414	Heart drug may have anti-cancer potential http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/n...ory_73572.html The article is about an animal study of the anti-cancer potential of digoxin, but mentions that a long-term retrospective study of 175 women with breast cancer found that 6 percent of women on digitalis-based drugs died following breast cancer versus 34 percent without. Of course, the numbers were probably small.