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Bisphosphonates and breast cancer

A recent article in the British Journal of Cancer indicated that women taking bisphosphonates prescribed for osteoporosis had about a 30% reduction in breast cancer occurrence. Bisphosphonates have a core molecular structure similar to a naturally occurring compound, pyrophosphate, essentially a diphosphate moiety. However, in a bisphosphonate, a carbon atom replaces an oxygen atom [...]

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