Hi everyone, I too am newly diagnosed
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Good morning @Bettyboo. I hope today goes well for you. @Annski wrote beautifully and perfectly, and I would endorse her suggestion to look after your mental health. Perhaps a chat or two with a counsellor would be helpful.
AI stands for aromatase inhibitor. It's a broad term for the hormone therapy post-menopausal women are prescribed if their tumours are found to oestrogen positive. Which means their cancers feed on oestrogen to grow. An AI stops the production of oestrogen in your body. The individual ones you'll read here are Letrozole, Femara, Anastrozole, Aromasin and Exemestane. Sometimes it's just easier to type AI! If you're pre-menopausal it's more usual to take Tamoxifen. That allows your body to still produce oestrogen but blocks its uptake by your cancer.
Clear as mud?! K xox
AI stands for aromatase inhibitor. It's a broad term for the hormone therapy post-menopausal women are prescribed if their tumours are found to oestrogen positive. Which means their cancers feed on oestrogen to grow. An AI stops the production of oestrogen in your body. The individual ones you'll read here are Letrozole, Femara, Anastrozole, Aromasin and Exemestane. Sometimes it's just easier to type AI! If you're pre-menopausal it's more usual to take Tamoxifen. That allows your body to still produce oestrogen but blocks its uptake by your cancer.
Clear as mud?! K xox