Tamoxifen as treatment not prevention
Hi, Has anyone else been put on Tamoxifen to shrink existing tumours rather than to prevent recurrence? Was it effective? Hoping someone can help.
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Hi @StarGirl,
Tamoxifen is an estrogen blocker to help stop cancer from growing. I read your other post re NDIS and noticed your her2 + but maybe you also have hormone positive cancer too.
Sometimes it's our pathology that determines treatment and sometimes people with mets have combinations of different treatments to help halt progression.
Treatment is also determined by what other treatments you have already been given. For example in 2020 I was diagnosed with bc hormone positive and her2 negative. I had no lymph involvement but my bc was grade 3 cells and aggressive growth so i had surgery, chemo, radium and then tamoxifen. My body didn't handle tamoxifen so i was changed to Letrozole and then the cancer metastasisd. This doesn't mean it isn't effective for you. We are all different and our treatment is unique to us.
So I am now on Fulvestrant injections. Fulvestrant is part of the tamoxifen family and I also take ribociclib.
It is good to understand your treatment and know what each drug does. Take to your oncologist to get a better understanding of treatment.
Best wishes ❤️
Tamoxifen is an estrogen blocker to help stop cancer from growing. I read your other post re NDIS and noticed your her2 + but maybe you also have hormone positive cancer too.
Sometimes it's our pathology that determines treatment and sometimes people with mets have combinations of different treatments to help halt progression.
Treatment is also determined by what other treatments you have already been given. For example in 2020 I was diagnosed with bc hormone positive and her2 negative. I had no lymph involvement but my bc was grade 3 cells and aggressive growth so i had surgery, chemo, radium and then tamoxifen. My body didn't handle tamoxifen so i was changed to Letrozole and then the cancer metastasisd. This doesn't mean it isn't effective for you. We are all different and our treatment is unique to us.
So I am now on Fulvestrant injections. Fulvestrant is part of the tamoxifen family and I also take ribociclib.
It is good to understand your treatment and know what each drug does. Take to your oncologist to get a better understanding of treatment.
Best wishes ❤️