posted May 19, 2000 04:50 AM            

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This was the headline on the front page of the London 'Metro' newspaper, below is the article of particular interest to me was the comment 'tamoxifen - which costs about the same as asprin' not on the fucking black market it dosen't!! Anyhow:

A drug in Britain has helped save the lives of 20,000 women in the past ten years, a study reveals today.
Tamoxifen is largely credited with cutting the death rate from breast cancer by 30% since the late 1980's. The fall is the most dramatic for a common cancer anywhere in the world.
Professor Sir Richard Peto, of the imperial cancer research fund, said last night "this is the first time better treatment of cancer has produced such a rapid decrease in national death rates. I've been working on breast cancer for the last 25 years and never expected to see trends as nice as this."
The figures represent an astonishing turn-around because, between 1957 and 1987 the mortality rate in Britain soared by 26%.
The sucess has been mirrored in America where around 40,000 more women have beaten breast cancer in the last decade, a reportin The Lancet reveals.
Five-year courses of tamoxifen are now been offered routinely to breast cancer patients in the UK. the drug, made by AstraZeneca, was discovered and developed in labs in Alderley Park, Cheshire, and launched in 1973.
Tamoxifen - which costs about the same as asprin - blocks the cancer-inducing sffects of the female sex hormoneoestrogen.
Doctors say that, combined with good screening programmes and better post-surgery treatment such as chemotherapy, it has helped survival rates. However the drug is not suitable for all sufferers.
Delyth Morgan, cheif executive of the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "It is heartening that advances in reasearch and treatment are having an effect."

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posted May 19, 2000 12:47 PM            

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i read that to. Where u from starski

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