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YLY
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9 years ago

Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) vs Tamoxifen for premenopausal women

Hi all, I've been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, stage 1a, grade 2, ER and PR positive, HER2 negative, nodes all clear. Age 35.  As I also found out that i am BRCA2 positive, I will als...
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iserbrown
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9 years ago
Hi!  My treatment is Tamoxifen daily and Zoladex injection monthly for 2 years.  At the end of Zoladex treatment the Oncologist has suggested he will move me off Tamoxifen onto Arimidex.

We all react differently so it is hard to compare - my latest scan suggests my ovaries are healthy so we wait and see for the time to tick down, 10 Zoladex injections to go, but who's counting!

Do I suffer side effects?  Yes but it is hard to point the finger at which medication, these two or the other that I am on. 

Take care