By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: May 11, 2010
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and
Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
BRUSSELS -- The gene expression response to tamoxifen (Nolvadex) after only a few days of use may predict whether the drug will work in a particular patient subset, according to Scottish researchers.
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON
Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:42pm EDT
(Reuters) - Longer-term results from a head-to-head trial of two drugs that prevent breast cancer shows that tamoxifen works better than rival Eli Lilly and Co's Evista, but with a greater risk of some other cancers and blood clots.
After nearly seven years of follow-up, researchers found that women who took tamoxifen for five years were less likely to develop breast cancer than those...
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor - Analysis
WASHINGTON
Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:00am EDT
(Reuters) - The results are in and clear -- taking a pill a day for five years can slash the risk of breast cancer. But high-risk women are still reluctant to do it.
The cancer specialists who have been comparing the drugs raloxifene and tamoxifen rushed out updated findings to a meeting on Monday, showing that tamoxifen lowers the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women...
Nine-Country Study Shows Wide Variations in How Women With Early Breast Cancer Are Treated
ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2010) — A global study of nearly 10,000 women with early breast cancer has found wide variations in how they were treated, despite international consensus on best practice, according to the May issue of the British Journal of Surgery.
Researchers from Europe, Japan and America compared 9,779 women with an average age of 64 from 566 study sites in Belgium, France,...
CBC News
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | 5:05 PM ET
Women who take the antidepressant Paxil along with the breast cancer drug tamoxifen may increase their risk of dying from the disease, Canadian doctors say.
But the doctors, who studied the health records of more than 2,400 women with breast cancer, stressed the importance of not stopping treatment suddenly.
The antidepressant paroxetine, which is sold under the brand name Paxil and various...
