A drug costing less than 5p a day that can prevent 34,000 women a year dying from breast cancer sits on the shelf?

A recent paper in the Lancet published yesterday has confirmed that a class of drugs called Bisphosphonates(BP) when given early to breast cancer patients can prevent breast cancer recurrence in the bone and improve breast cancer survival, but only in women who were postmenopausal when treatment began.  HOPE for breastcancer patients then? YES and NO! Currently … Continue reading A drug costing less than 5p a day that can prevent 34,000 women a year dying from breast cancer sits on the shelf?