Mayo collaboration finds source of breast drug side effect

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 08:35 in Health & Medicine

Mayo Clinic researchers and their international colleagues have discovered genetic variants that lead to severe arthritis for a subset of women when taking aromatase inhibitors to treat their breast cancer. This serious side effect is so painful that many women halt their lifesaving medication. The findings appear today in the online issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology...

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