Iowa Health System Working together. Making a difference. Of those, Trinity Cancer Center has enrolled 30 women since accrual began in July 1999. An additional 40 currently are in the screening phase of the study.
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The women participating in the Quad-Cities and across the nation will help answer extremely important questions regarding the prevention of breast cancer. This study, however, needs to be ongoing to reach its national goal of enrolling 22,0000 women over a five-year period. Raloxifene was shown to reduce the incidence of breast cancer in a large osteoporosis trial. It is affiliated with the North Central Cancer Treatment Group, the Eastern Co-Operative Oncology Group, the Southwestern Oncology Group, the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, and the University of Nebraska. For many of the women, the reasons for participating are varied and sometimes extremely personal.