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Thursday 11 December 2014

Wonder Breast Cancer Drug: kills more breast cancer patients.




'The reduced incidence of breast cancer with tamoxifen did not translate into a reduction in breast cancer specific deaths (31 tamoxifen versus 26 placebo) the researchers found. In addition, five women receiving tamoxifen died from endometrial cancer compared to none in the placebo group'.
 Guardian went with this ambiguous homage to Big Pharma:


The moral of this story: always read paragraph eight. 

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