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1. Tamoxifen for 5 years reduced 16-year risk for breast cancer in women at increased risk.

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Parsons, Heather and Stearns, Vered

Subjects
*BREAST tumor risk factors, *CONFIDENCE intervals, *DECISION making, *LONGITUDINAL method, *MORTALITY, *SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry), *RANDOMIZED controlled trials, *TAMOXIFEN, *RELATIVE medical risk, *TREATMENT effectiveness, *TREATMENT duration, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *ODDS ratio, BREAST tumor prevention
Abstract

The article focuses on a study on the effects of tamoxifen therapy in women with increased risk of breast cancer. The study concluded that 5 years of tamoxifen therapy reduced 16-year risk for breast cancer in woman at increased risk. The findings include that tamoxifen therapy increased the risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer without increasing chances of gynecologic cancer, lung cancer and death.

Published
2015

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