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Breast Cancer Prevention
Decision-making guide assists women in making choices regarding tamoxifen
December 29th, 2005
A decision-making guide was developed to assist women and physicians in making informed choices regarding tamoxifen therapy. "Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the incidence of invasive breast cancer in women at higher risk. Translating these research results to clinical practice is challenging," researchers in Canada asserted. A. McKay and colleagues stated, "Our objective was to develop and evaluate a decision-making guide and process that can be used in clinical practice to inform eligible women of chemoprevention with tamoxifen. A decision guide explaining the benefits and risks of tamoxifen was developed with input from health care...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-29)
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