A more positive perspective re: breast cancer drugs...hope it's helpful to
you who are still trying to decide. Love, joicy
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Comments on New Data
Released About Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Drugs
[05/18/99; PR Newswire]
ATLANTA, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation is encouraged by additional data presented today at the
American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Annual Meeting concerning
the use of chemopreventive agents to reduce the risk of breast cancer
in women at a high risk for the disease. Further analysis of data from
the landmark Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) indicate that women
with pre-cancerous conditions known as lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)
and atypical hyperplasia (AHP) experienced an even greater risk reduction
than other women included in the trial.
.....
``The data presented today offers further evidence that chemopreventive
agents like tamoxifen are a viable option for reducing the risk of
breast cancer for women at high risk for the disease,'' said Susan Braun,
president and chief executive officer of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation. ``As with most medications, there are potentially serious side
effects associated with tamoxifen. A woman needs to understand this and
weigh it in light of her risk of developing breast cancer. Risk assessment
tools are being refined and made widely available, which will help women
and their physicians perform an individual breast cancer risk
assessment, based on the woman's own personal and medical history.''
The full article can be found at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990518/tx_komen_f_1.html
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