In 1978, my mom, Barbara Harman, who was 58 on the time, had a lump faraway from a breast at Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth.
In June that yr she was prescribed tamoxifen, the drug that had been just lately championed by the pharmacologist Craig Jordan. She was advised that it was a brand new type of therapy and acquired common monitoring into the mid-Nineteen Nineties. The most cancers didn’t return. She died 43 years later on the age of 101.
