Addie Mitchell, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Breast Cancer Now, led the Loose Women panellists through a live self-check demonstration with Nadia.
The drug lowered breast cancer cases by almost 50% during trials of eligible women over an 11-year period A drug used to treat breast cancer has now been licenced for preventative use and will be offered to almost 300,000 women, in what has been hailed as a ‘major step forward’ for patients with a family history of the disease.
‘Thanks to this initiative, we hope that greater access to anastrozole could enable more women to take risk-reducing steps if they’d like to, helping them live without fear of breast cancer.’ To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The drug – a 1mg tablet taken once a day for five years – works by cutting down the amount of oestrogen a patient’s body makes by blocking an enzyme called aromatase.
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