Letter: Craig Jordan obituary

In 1978, my mother, Barbara Harman, who was 58 at the time, had a lump removed from a breast at Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth.

In June that year she was prescribed tamoxifen, the drug that had been recently championed by the pharmacologist Craig Jordan . She was told that it was a new form of treatment and received regular monitoring into the mid-1990s. The cancer did not return. She died 43 years later at the age of 101.