Take a Drug to ''Beat'' Breast Cancer, Suffer a Fatal Stroke

It's evil and dangerous to play with the lives of the sick by throwing
drugs that "cure" one problem, only to leave them vulnerable to many
more, but it happens all the time. Such is the case with the
osteoporosis drug Evista (raloxifene), once actually promoted for
treating cardiovascular disease.

The Eli Lilly drug was found to prevent breast cancer in a study of
more than 10,000 postmenopausal women published in today's New England
Journal of Medicine, but at the dire expense of trading those odds for
an elevated risk of fatal strokes and blood clots.

The incidence of breast cancer among patients who took Evista for five
years dropped by a third over the course of the study. The number of
deaths among Evista patients that were attributed to fatal strokes,
however, was nearly 50 percent higher than for those who took a
placebo.

Of course, the coffers of drugmakers would empty very quickly if more
patients understood they could virtually eliminate their cancer risks
safely and effectively by making some major lifestyle changes that
include eating the foods your body burns best based on your unique
metabolic type.

New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 2, July 13, 2006:
125-137
Free Full Text Study at http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/2/125


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