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Women in England and Wales with a strong family history of breast cancer could be offered medication on the NHS to try to prevent the disease.
The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has launched a consultation on whether tamoxifen could be given for up to five years.
If approved later this year, the draft guidelines would be the first of their kind in the UK.
Charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer welcomed the "exciting, historic step".
NICE says not enough is being done to help healthy but high-risk women, who include women with a sister and a mother or aunt diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 50.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21016553
The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has launched a consultation on whether tamoxifen could be given for up to five years.
If approved later this year, the draft guidelines would be the first of their kind in the UK.
Charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer welcomed the "exciting, historic step".
NICE says not enough is being done to help healthy but high-risk women, who include women with a sister and a mother or aunt diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 50.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21016553