Bone drug can prevent breast cancer

A WIDELY-USED bone drug can prevent breast cancer and is safer and just as effective for post-menopausal women as tamoxifen, a study has shown.

At least two million women might benefit from raloxifene's cancer-reducing effects, US researchers said.

Until now, the decades-old tamoxifen has been doctors' only choice to reduce the chances of breast cancer striking high-risk women.