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Is Tamoxifen Chemotherapy?
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Hormone Therapy
The goal of hormone therapy is to prevent estrogen from stimulating breast cancer cells. It is recommended for women whose breast cancers are hormone-receptor positive (either estrogen or progesterone), regardless of the size of the tumor and whether or not it has spread to the lymph nodes. Like chemotherapy, hormone therapy works systemically.
Hormone therapy works by blocking estrogen that causes cell proliferation. It is used only for patients with hormone receptor-positive...
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New Chemotherapy Studies: Maybe I Didn't Need Chemotherapy After All
It’s more than ten years too late to help me, but maybe I didn’t need chemotherapy after all. A new study in the Journal of the... Read more »
Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) and Arimidex: In the News Again
The blogwaves were buzzing recently with the news that tamoxifen (nolvadex), the once (and perhaps future) king of breast cancer prevention... Read more »
Tamoxifen and Raloxifene Side Effects
Preventing deaths. Tamoxifen has long been hailed as a wonder drug for preventing recurrences of breast cancer. In the 1990s, studies... Read more »
My Reaction to Coming off of Tamoxifen
To my surprise, at my oncology check-up appointment this week, my doctor told me to stop taking Femara, the aromatase inhibitor I’ve been... Read more »
Chemotherapy Not Necessarily Best Everyone with Breast Cancer
I’m following the recent debate over whether women with breast cancer should have chemotherapy with great interest. Ten years ago, when I... Read more »
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Chemotherapy 101 Part III: Surviving Chemotherapy
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Tamoxifen and Fertility
Source: Breastcancer.org
You've just finished chemotherapy and are ready to get pregnant. Then your doctor says you should start tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is a hormonal therapy... Read more »
Paxil Interferes with Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen
Canadian researchers have found that women who take the antidepressant Paxil along with the breast cancer drug tamoxifen may be lowering their chance... Read more »
Tamoxifen
Source: Breastcancer.org
Tamoxifen, the generic name of Nolvadex, is the oldest and most-prescribed SERM. Tamoxifen is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... Read more »
Infertility and Chemotherapy: Breast Cancer Treatment Concerns...
During my first oncology consultation, my doctor was explaining the staging of my breast cancer and the best course of treatment when, seemingly out... Read more »
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