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View Post: A Patient's Guide to Tamoxifen Citrate
4 Nov 2009 by rosekitchen216  
Tamoxifen citrate is a medication used to treat certain types of breast cancer. It can cause certain serious health complications, though this is rare. It is also prescribed under two brand names, Soltramox and Nolvadex. ...
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View Post: Study confirms risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatment ...
26 Aug 2009
New US research has confirmed that women who take the hormone therapy tamoxifen to reduce the risk of their breast cancer recurring are less likely to develop the most common type of breast cancer, but may face an increased risk of ...
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View Post: Hormone Treatment
29 Oct 2009 by JakkyLow  
Tamoxifen has now become the most frequently prescribed anti-cancer drug in the world and is the gold standard for the treatment of all stages of breast cancer. Tamoxifen ultimately provided a treatment that has saved 400000 women's ...
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View Post: Tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention does not benefit most women ...
25 Sep 2006
Tamoxifen was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1998 for breast cancer prevention in women who have at least a 1.67-percent chance of developing the disease over the next five years. Such women are considered at high ...
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View Post: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog: Tamoxifen for breast cancer: How's your ...
12 Oct 2009 by Herman Kattlove  
Well now, we can predict a little more about how breast cancer patients will respond to tamoxifen. It turns out that tamoxifen isn't all that active as a substance that kills breast cancer. Before it can do its job, the tamoxifen needs ...
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View Post: Ratio of 17HSD1 to 17HSD2 Protein Expression Predicts the Outcome ...
18 May 2009 by Jansson, A., Delander, L., Gunnarsson,...  
For patients with a 17HSD1 score not exceeding that of 17HSD2, tamoxifen increased the rate of distant recurrence-free survival (hazard ratio, 0.37; 95% confidence interval, 0.23-0.60) and breast cancer-specific survival (hazard ratio, ...
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View Post: Health Corner » Blog Archive » Danger of Breast Cancer Drug
25 Aug 2009 by fazzayafuzzu  
Women at high risk of breast cancer after undergoing a hysterectomy seems to get the benefits of using tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. But, this breast cancer drug type is allegedly causing more severe symptoms. ...
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