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Business Times (Malaysia)

03-22-2001

I WISH to inform breast cancer patients and survivors on the importance
of the oestrogen receptor test and to share my experience regarding this.
If you are oestrogen receptor positive, you will respond to hormonal therapy.
Tamoxifen is one of the oral drugs. Anastrozole is now the latest oral
drug (as published in the New Straits Times dated Feb 19) following a visit
to Malaysia by a world renowned oncologist recently. Therefore, it is very
important for breast cancer patients and survivors to know whether

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