Around 2,000 cases of breast cancer could be avoided if only a small amount of women take up the offer
Nearly 300,000 women will be offered a drug that could reduce their risk of developing breast cancer, the NHS has said.
According to officials, estimations state that if 25 per cent of eligible women in England take up the offer while half of those take the drug for five years as recommended, it could result in avoiding 2,000 cases. While the drug is already in use for the treatment of breast cancer patients, it is now being "repurposed" to prevent potential future cases and is the first to go through NHS England's Medicines Repurposing Programme.
“This is the first drug to be repurposed though a world-leading new programme to help us realise the full potential of existing medicines in new uses to save and improve more lives on the NHS. Thanks to this initiative, we hope that greater access to anastrozole could enable more women to take risk-reducing steps if they’d like to, helping them live without fear of breast cancer.”
However, the drug is now licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency as a preventative treatment. Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at the charity Breast Cancer Now, said: “The extension of anastrozole’s licence to cover it being used as a risk-reducing treatment is a major step forward that will enable more eligible women with a significant family history of breast cancer to reduce their chance of developing the disease.
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