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Article: Breast cancer survivors have fewer heart attacks.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- August 3, 2003
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2003 AUG 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breast cancer survivors appear to be one-third less likely to have a heart attack than other women, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the July 2003 issue of Cancer.
This reduction was most apparent in women with risk factors for heart disease, the leading cause of death in older women.
The researchers suspect that higher natural levels of estrogen, which can increase breast cancer risk, combined with the anticancer drug tamoxifen that many breast cancer survivors take to decrease their risk of recurrence, may explain the reduced heart attack rate.
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