a potential break through in the fight against breast cancer. researchers finding a drug to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells. so, dr. segel, it's fascinating how this drug was, in fact, discovered. >> let me talk about what's at stake here. 70% of breast cancer is estrogen receptor positive, meaning estrogen makes the cancer grow. we use tamoxifan. cancer figures it out, mutates. it makes it inactive, turns against it. the cancer grows more. we still need to target the estrogen receptors. this drug destroys the receptor. this drug can be useful when at that mocks i fan has failed. fox news yesterday spoke to dr. mcdonald who's the head researcher on this. let's have a look. >> what we decided to do, rather than wait around, we go back and
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