Taking Tamoxifen For a Longer Time Helps Prevent Recurrence
Taking Tamoxifen For a Longer Time Helps Prevent Recurrence
Research shows that breast cancer patients taking Tamoxifen for a much longer term, up to 10 years, may help reduce the risk of recurrence.
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" I'm so sorry. But it is infected. Popular carcinoma. And those are the words forty by general Lori Landon will never forget yeah I was in the car with my husband and and it was just shot it's just that. 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. One Tamoxifen pills a day and cancer story. And planning to stay that way it. 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 -- 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 here's a 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 the Madison causes side effects like hot flashes -- But it's a small price to pay for women like -- determined to beat the cancer long term you just have to turn around and do it for man -- I wanna be here I wanna be Greg Graham."
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