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Biotech / Medical : Duramed (DRMD) Synthetic Estrogen Product

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To: KM who wrote (1064)	4/3/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: tommysdad	Read Replies (1) of 1837

Umm, you guys are mixing things up. Tamoxifen is, and has always been, synthetic. You're confusing it with Taxol, which was originally isolated from a yew tree (the Pacific yew, I believe), then yew needles, now a semi-synthetic. That is NOT what Duramed is going after. DRMD is going after Tamoxifen -- an synthetic anti-estrogen that has been around a long time. Tamoxifen has indeed been pushed as a breast cancer prophylactic, but there are a lot of side effects. And plenty of competing products are coming along, including Evista, which is already on the market from Lilly.

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