Small Risk of Side Effects Outweighs Larger Risk of Getting Cancer
If someone invented a pill to cut a cancer risk in half, would you take it?
Who wouldn’t?
Apparently the answer is millions of women.
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This very interesting. It shows a lack of rational thought.
Agree it’s interesting. But hard to understand.
It’s women not thinking rationally. That shouldn’t be so hard to understand.
The article says that among 52 year old women at risk, 19 out of 1,000 women would develop breast cancer. If those women took tamoxifen, 9 of them would avoid breast cancer.
However, the drug wuld be expected to cause 21 additional cases of endometrial cancer, 21 would develop blood clots, 31 would develop cataracts, and 12 would develop sexual problems.
Irrational?