KTNV, Wednesday July 21, 2010 10:03 pm EDT
July 20, 2010.
If you are taking tamoxifen, be sure to avoid any medications that interfere with its effectiveness.
A test to measure CEP17 can help physicians choose the most effective chemotherapy to improve a patient’s chances of survival. Chemotherapy has very unpleasant side effects, and choosing the most effective chemotherapy the first time helps patients fight cancer more quickly.
The bottom line for now, pending additional research, is that people who have been using permanent hair dyes since the 1980s appear to be at little to no increased risk of lymphoma or other cancers.