From the July 2019 issue of Weill Cornell Medicine's Women's Health Advisor (WHA)
Treatments Focus on Preventing, as Well as Curing, Breast Cancer
Women at increased risk of breast cancer, including all women over age 60, may take medications that will lower the risk.
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It’s not surprising that breast cancer is a major health concern of women: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, second only to skin cancers. However, thanks to medical advances, death rates from female breast cancer dropped 40 percent between 1989 and 2016. One reason for lower mortality rates is that the […]