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Does Yaz Make You Skip Periods?
Scottish researchers say that many women are risking their lives by skipping doses of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. The study found that as many as 50 percent of women did not finish the full five-year course of the drug, and one in five regularly skipped a dose. But researchers say that women who missed a dose approximately once a week were 10 percent more likely to die than women who took the medicine every day. Younger women were more likely to stop taking the drug before the end of the...
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