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Osteoporosis Drug that can Cure Breast Cancer
Drugs for osteoporosis may reduce by up to 40 percent the risk of breast cancer, according to a study by the Cancer Research Center Fred Hutchinson in Seattle (United States) that is published in the journal British Journal of Cancer.
The research found that women using bisphosphonate drugs for more than two years had nearly 40 percent lower risk compared with those not taking them.
New evidence against cancer
As explained Polly Newcomb, director of the study, “this large study provides new evidence that bisphosphonate use is associated with a significant reduction in risk of breast cancer.
The protective effect was observed only among women who were not obese. “Obese women may have elevated estrogen levels and therefore the underlying hormones could influence the ability of bisphosphonates to reduce the risk of breast cancer,” says Newcomb. Read the rest of this entry »