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Professor Cuzick comments on breast cancer prevention

‘Bone pills 'may cut breast cancer risk'’
Daily Express p.7

Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine: Professor Jack Cuzick

New research reveals that women who take drugs to prevent osteoporosis may reduce their chance of developing breast cancer by up to 40 per cent. Those taking the drug bisphosphonates saw their risk plummet after two years say researchers at Cancer Research UK. Professor Cuzick said: “These findings now need to be confirmed with direct random prevention trials in high-risk women.”

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