A break through in cancer research with tamoxifen!!!

 

 

Thousands of women who are at risk of developing breast cancer are to be offered a new drug "Tamoxifen or raloxifen" on the NHS in the United Kingdom. This is a big break through in the research for a cure to cancer research, what a relief as this means up to 500,000 women in England and Wales would have a choice other than mastectomy. The Scottish Government says it will offer Tamoxifen to women at risk such as those who have had two or more family members with breast cancer. Statistics indicate that one in five women who fall ill to breast cancer have a family link e.g if either a sister, mother, Aunt, Grand mother has had it. Star Actress Angelina Jolie had a mastectomy performed in may this year, because she believed she was at risk as a carrier of the BRCA1 gene, her aunt died shortly after her double mastectomy. Tamoxifen is a welcome relief....Whew