Breast cancer: 'Repurposed' drug that could reduce risk to be offered to thousands

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A "repurposed" drug that has been used to treat hormone-sensitive breast cancer, could also help prevent the disease from occurring in the first place, trials have shown.

Anastrozole will be offered to 289,000 post-menopausal women who are considered to have at least a moderate risk of breast cancer in England - as Sky's Ashish Joshi reports.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/repurposed-drug-that-could-prevent-breast-cancer-to-be-offered-to-nearly-300-000-women-13001934

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