Dear All,
I wonder if anybody can help me I am 10 Months post breast cancer and have been on both anastrozole and tamoxifen. Tbh I have found them both hard and currently are just about managing to take 10mg of tamoxifen, which I’m hoping is better than nothing. If you go on the predict calculator it give the survival if you take meds and mine is 3.5% better with them. So I think is it worth it?
it doesn’t however give any indication to the recurrence figures and when I asked my surgeon she said there is no figures for this? I
woukd be so interested to hear from others ?
many thanks indeed xx
Hi there, this article was excellent and will give you the facts you are looking for. Hope it helps.
https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-after-menopause--aromatase-inhibitors-can-help.h00-159542112.html#:~:text=Clinical%20trials%20have%20shown%20that,with%20estrogen%2Dfueled%20breast%20cancers.
Barbara
Barbara
Thanks for the link Barbara; good to see a simple explanation!
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