Tamoxifen prevention trial faltering: NCI faces difficulty recruiting, additional bad news on tamoxifen. (National Cancer Institute)

The Network News | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

The last few months have been bad ones for the proponents of the tamoxifen prevention trial. In October, it was revealed at a closed-door meeting that tamoxifen failed to prevent heart disease in breast cancer patients. These data have not yet been published in a scientific journal, but they have been discussed in presentations at the National Cancer Institute and other leading cancer research institutions.(1) NCI has made no public comment, though, probably because they face a very embarrassing situation--the prevention trial is based on the premise that it will prevent heart ...

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