Breast Cancer Drug Fights Lung Cancer, Too
December 11th, 2009
The anti-hormone drug tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer, may also reduce the risk of dying from lung cancer, a study of more than 6,000 women suggests.
“We found women who were treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer were less likely to die from lung cancer than women in the general population,” says Elisabetta Rapiti, MD, MPH, a medical researcher at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.