Antidepressant doesn't raise breast cancer risk
18th Nov 2005, 21:36 GMT
Contrary to the findings in rodent studies, a class of drugs commonly used to treat depression, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that include drugs such as Prozac, do not appear to increase the risk of breast cancer, according to a report in the American Journal of Epidemiology. "Physicians can feel confident that the evidence has accumulated that use of SSRIs for four to five years does not increase the risk of breast cancer," said Dr. Patricia F. Coogan,...
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