• Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg

Hormone therapy Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg

Tamoxifen is a hormone therapy drug to treat breast cancer in women and men. It is also sometimes called endocrine therapy. You pronounce tamoxifen as ta-mox-si-fen. It's a treatment for: early breast cancer.

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  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg
  • Hormone therapy  Nolvadex(Tamoxifen)-20mg

Description

What is tamoxifen?

Tamoxifen (brand names: Nolvadex, Soltamox) is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) used: after surgery to reduce the risk of hormone receptor-positive, early-stage breast cancer coming back (recurring) in women or men to treat advanced-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in women or men after surgery to reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer in women diagnosed with hormone receptor-positive DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) to reduce the risk of breast cancer in women with a higher-than-average risk of the disease who haven’t been diagnosed


Tamoxifen is used to treat breast cancer, and can reduce mortality and recurrence rate of estrogen-dependent breast cancer patients, so it has a good prospect. Another endocrine therapy aromatase inhibitor, it can inhibit effect of aromatase, preventing that the and rostenedione secreted by adrenal gland is transformed into estrogen in peripheral tissues (fat, skin, muscle), further reducing estrogen levels in postmenopausal women. It is currently one of the important means to treat postmenopausal patients with estrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer


Uses
1. Treatment for Women with metastatic breast cancer recurrence.
2. Used as adjuvant therapy after surgery for breast cancer metastasis, and relapse prevention.
3. For the treatment of ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer and endometriosis.






Side effects
1. Early treatment of bone cancer pain and may be a transient increase, continued treatment can be gradually reduced.
2. gastrointestinal reactions: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
3. Reproductive system: menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, vaginal bleeding, genital itching, endometrial hyperplasia, endometrial polyps and endometrial cancer.
4. Skin: facial flushing, rash, hair loss.
5. Bone marrow: occasionally neutropenia and thrombocytopenia.
6. Liver function: occasionally abnormalities.
7. Eyes: using for long time (17 months or more) and large number (240~320mg per day), may appear retinal lesions or corneal opacity .
8. The rare and needed attention of side effects: insanity, pulmonary embolism (showing shortness of breath), thrombosis, weakness, drowsiness.