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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2012 May;13(7):1081. doi: 10.1517/14656566.2012.677336

Retraction. Treatment of osteoporosis and reduction in risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with raloxifene

PMCID: PMC3384535  NIHMSID: NIHMS383660  PMID: 22519771

The editor would like to inform the readers that the following article has been withdrawn due to duplication of previously published material:

  • SS Ko, VC Jordan. Treatment of osteoporosis and reduction in risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with raloxifene. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2011;12(4):657–674

An author of this article, VC Jordan, noticed that his co-author, SS Ko, included various sections and sentences in this paper that were copied from a number of previously published articles. This has also been confirmed by the editor.

We would like to apologise to the authors of the following papers and to our readers for inadvertently publishing replicated material from these papers, which is not condoned by the publishing and scientific community:

  • Lee WL, Chao HT, Cheng MH, et al. Rational for using raloxifene to prevent both osteoporosis and breast cancer in postmenopausal women. The European Menopause Journal. 2008;60:92–107

  • Vogel V, Constantino J, Wickerham DL, et al. Update of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) P-2 Trial: Preventing Breast Cancer. Cancer Prev Res. 2010;3(6):696–706

  • Vogel. Tipping the Balance for the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer. JNCI. 2010;102(22):1683–1685

  • Riggs BL and Hartmann LC. Selective Estrogen-Receptor Modulators -Mechanisms of Action and Application to Clinical Practice. NEJM. 2003;348(7):618–629

  • Visvanathan K, Chlebowski R, Hurley P, et al. American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guidline Update on the Use of Pharmacologic Interventions Including Tamoxifen, Raloxifene, and Aromatase Inhibition for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27:3253–3258

  • Gnant M. Can Oral Bisphosphonates Really Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer in Healthy Women? J Clin Oncol. 2010;3548–3551

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