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Article: HOT FLASHES MAY BE WELCOME SIGN IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER, STUDY SAYS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 5, 2007
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The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:
Women on tamoxifen therapy who reported having hot flashes were less likely to develop recurrent breast cancer than those who did not report hot flashes, according to a study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Moreover, hot flashes were a stronger predictor of outcome than age, hormone receptor status or even how advanced the breast cancer was at diagnosis.
The study results were published online June 1 by the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, and were presented June 4 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago.
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