Once again I wonder why I cant decide... to take or not to take?
Thank you for all of the information that you keep digging up.
Debby
Becker, Joicy wrote:
>
> 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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