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CANCER PILL HOPE NHS to offer 300,000 women at
high risk of breast cancer a 4p pill that could halve
danger
(1º§) Once-a-day tumour drug Anastrozole is to be
repurposed as a preventative after research showed it
slashed the threat by 49 per cent. The NHS in England
will offer it to around 289,000 post-menopausal women
who have genes that mean breast cancer runs in their
family. It estimates 2,000 cancers could be prevented for
every 36,000 women who take the drug for five years.
(2º§) Doctors have been allowed to prescribe
Anastrozole, also known as Arimidex, to prevent cancer
since 2017 but it was never officially designated for this
purpose, so was uncommon. A new licence from the
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
means it will now become standard care. The hormone
therapy reduces levels of oestrogen that some tumours
feed off.
(3º§) NHS England chief exec Amanda Pritchard said:
"This is the first drug to be repurposed through a
world-leading new programme to help us realise the full
potential of existing medicines to save and improve
lives." Baroness Delyth Morgan, of charity Breast Cancer
Now, called the roll-out a "major step forward". Baroness
Delyth Morgan, chief executive at the charity Breast
Cancer Now, said: "[It] will enable more eligible women
with a significant family history of breast cancer to reduce
their chance of developing the disease." The treatment is
taken as a 1mg tablet, once a day for five years.
(4º§) Trials have shown that the drug reduces breast
cancer cases by 49 per cent over 11 years among
eligible women. The most common side effects of the
medicine are hot flushes, feeling weak, pain/stiffness in
the joints, arthritis, skin rash, nausea, headache,
osteoporosis, and depression. The cases prevented by
anastrozole could save the NHS £15 million in treatment
costs.
(5º§) Around 47,000 women in England are diagnosed
with breast cancer each year. Health Minister Will Quince
said: "Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the
UK so I'm delighted that another effective drug to help to
prevent this cruel disease has now been approved.
"We've already seen the positive effect anastrozole can
have in treating the disease when it has been detected in
post-menopausal women and now we can use it to stop it
developing at all in some women."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/24652823/nhs-offer-anastrozole-breast
-cancer/