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Witness History: Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’

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Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’

17/07/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’

How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment

How tamoxifen, a failed contraceptive pill, became a treatment for people with breast cancer around the world.

The story of how tamoxifen went from a failed contraceptive pill, to being used to prevent and treat breast cancer around the world. 

It was the first ever targeted cancer drug. 

Laura Jones speaks to Professor V. Craig Jordan, who helped bring it to the world’s attention in the 1970s.

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