A new $3 million grant — from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — is supporting a phase 2 clinical trial to investigate an osteoporosis drug for its potential to lower breast density in women with dense breasts. Women with dense breasts have four- to six-times higher risk of developing breast cancer than women with lower breast density. The average woman has a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer over an 80-year life span.
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“’For women who have not yet gone through menopause, we do not have good preventative measures against breast cancer,’” said principal investigator