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Certain breast cancer drugs may hurt women's sex lives

MSNBC.com: Health - Posted: September 28th, 2012, 4:05pm EDT

Women treated with hormone-blocking drugs to stave off breast cancer recurrences are often dissatisfied with their sex lives, a new study from Sweden has found. More than half of older women treated with aromatase inhibitors said sex was almost always painful; less than one-third of women on tamoxifen, another anti-estrogen drug, reported painful sex.

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