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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sian Baldwin

What is anastrozole? Nearly 300k women given drug to prevent breast cancer

Almost 300,000 women will be offered a drug to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer, NHS officials have announced.

Some 289,000 post-menopausal women in England who are deemed to have a moderate or high risk of breast cancer will be offered anastrozole in a bid to prevent them from developing the disease.

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