Solution To Breast Cancer! By Camry James How long should a patient take tamoxifen for the treatment of breast cancer?
Patients with advanced may take tamoxifen for varying lengths of time, depending on their response to this treatment and other factors. When used as adjuvant therapy for early stage breast cancer, tamoxifen is generally prescribed for 5 years. However, the ideal length of treatment with tamoxifen is not known.
How Often Should I Take Tamoxifen?
Two studies have confirmed the benefit of taking adjuvant tamoxifen daily for 5 years. These studies compared 5 years of treatment with tamoxifen with 10 years of treatment. When taken for 5 years, the drug reduces the risk of recurrence of the original and also reduces the risk of developing a second primary cancer in the other breast. Taking tamoxifen for longer than 5 years is not more effective than 5 years of therapy.
What is Tamoxifen
Tamoxifen is an oral selective estrogen receptor modulator which is used in treatment, and is currently the world's largest selling treatment. It is used for the treatment of early and advanced in pre- and post-menopausal women. It is also approved by the FDA for the reduction of the incidence of in women at high risk of developing the disease. It has been further approved for the reduction
of contralateral
(in the opposite breast) breast cancer.
Tamoxifen and Cancer
Tamoxifen
is used to reduce the risk of for women who:
1. are at high risk of but have no personal history of the disease 2. have non-invasive,
hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer, or DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) 3.
have hormone-receptor-positive invasive at any stage.
Tamoxifen is sometimes used to treat gynecomastia
in men. Tamoxifen is also used by bodybuilders in a steroid cycle to try and
prevent or reduce drug-induced gynecomastia caused by steroids that are used
in the same cycle.
Tamoxifen is also used to treat infertility in women
with anovulatory disorders. A dose of 10-40 mg per day is administered in days
3-7 of a woman's cycle.
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