Aromatase Inhibitors: To use or not to use?
Having recently had a lumpectomy on a 10mm, oestrogen receptive, invasive lobular carcinoma where lymph nodes were negative to cancer, I'm now faced with the decision of whether or not to take the ar...
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Great to hear from you Helen. You've done well to handle the side-effects, as these are some of my greatest concerns with any hormonal treatment. The clinical studies on the longer term effects seem to only be for 5 years after cancer, with a few extending to 10 years. I'm more interested in the effect in 20 - 30 years time as at 57 I'll only be 77. To a younger doctor this may seem old, but to me it is still quite young. My paternal grandmother lived until 99. The risks of getting uterine cancer and memory loss seem to increase around this 20 year zone, and having watched my maternal aunt die last year of uterine cancer and dementia, at 74, 20 years after her breast cancer, it is scary for me. She took Tamoxifen for 5 years. Deirdre