Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment
Witness History · BBC World Service
July 17, 202311m 14s
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Show Notes
The story of how tamoxifen went from a failed contraceptive pill, to being used to prevent and treat breast cancer around the world.
It was the first ever targeted cancer drug.
Laura Jones speaks to Professor V. Craig Jordan, who helped bring it to the world’s attention in the 1970s.