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NHS red tape means that women at high risk of getting the disease cannot access a preventative drug which can slash their risk of developing the disease by more than half.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) recommends that women who are at moderate or high risk of breast cancer should be offered chemoprevention drugs tamoxifen and raloxifene.
Charity Breast Cancer Campaign said these drugs can reduce their risk of getting the disease by around 35 per cent if taken once a day for five years.
But after Nice's guidance was published, new trial data showed that another drug - anastrozole, which costs 7p a day per patient - can prevent as many as 53 per cent of cases when taken over the same time-frame.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/516453/NHS-overlook-cheap-cancer-preventing-drug
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) recommends that women who are at moderate or high risk of breast cancer should be offered chemoprevention drugs tamoxifen and raloxifene.
Charity Breast Cancer Campaign said these drugs can reduce their risk of getting the disease by around 35 per cent if taken once a day for five years.
But after Nice's guidance was published, new trial data showed that another drug - anastrozole, which costs 7p a day per patient - can prevent as many as 53 per cent of cases when taken over the same time-frame.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/516453/NHS-overlook-cheap-cancer-preventing-drug