Breast Cancer Prevention
Channel: HouseResourceOrg
Date: 01/01/2011

Breast Cancer Prevention - 1992-10-22 - Product 33456-1-DVD - House Committee Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations. The subcommittee heard testimony from doctors, administrators and cancer patients on the federal government's role in breast cancer research and prevention. Issues raised in the hearing included breast cancer research trials and federal cancer research funding. Officials of the National Institutes of Health defended a breast cancer research study against allegations that women participants were not adequately warned of the risks of the drug tamoxifen used in the trial.  Filmed by C-SPAN. Non-commercial use only. For more information, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/33456-1