Doctors Recommend 10 Years on Tamoxifan for Breast Cancer Survivors
Doctors Recommend 10 Years on Tamoxifan for Breast Cancer Survivors
Some doctors are increasing the time spent taking Tamoxifan for breast cancer survivors.
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" I'm so sorry. But it is infected. Popular carcinoma. And those are the words 45 general -- Landon will never forget yeah I was in the car has been. And it was just shot it's just that and the flash every year just this. Can't be happening to me with three good reasons to fight the breast cancer aggressively she opted for a double mastectomy followed by -- And now -- Tamoxifen pills a day and cancer tree and planning to stay that way. Doctor Robin Young with the center for cancer and blood disorders has typically prescribed Tamoxifen for five years. But armed with new information the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium. She is now doubling the link to that treatment to ten years in 2008. When we had information it looked like ten years. Reduce the risk of recurrence is about 12% better than five years now with former years of follow up. We can say that that translates. Into a survival benefit. About 2% which may not sound like a lot. If you're talking a million women worldwide. Saving the lives of 2% of those women is huge in Madison causes side effects like hot flashes and critique. But it's a small price to pay for women like -- determined to beat the cancer long term you just have to turn -- incentive for them because. I wanna be here I wanna be Greg Graham."
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