Study finds bisphosponates, which only cost 5p a day per patient, reduced risk of dying from breast cancer for postmenopausal women
A cheap and widely available drug used to treat osteoporosis could prevent a thousand breast cancer deaths a year, a study has found.
Researchers said that bisphosphonates, which are given to keep people’s bones healthy, prevented one in six breast cancer deaths in postmenopausal women over the course of a decade.
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