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Tamoxifen
Hello all. Just wondering if anybody with ER + tumours decided NOT to take Tamoxifen? I had 2 lumps removed , both HER2+ , one with low percent ER+ . Taxol only chemo and herceptin for 1 year but Tamo...
If you have your path results I recommend googling Predict...which will show you the difference with or without the hormone blockers. Your oncologist can go through that with you. For early breast cancer my results of same pathology (mine was stage 1 grade 3 and no nodes and I had ACT-H chemo) the hormone blocker tajen for 5 years made a significant difference in 10 year survival. Greater than herceptin and chemo is my understanding. I don't think anyone likes the side effects, but if livable...and it does improve over 6 months, then my belief it is worth taking to reduce the chance of metstatic spread. Goodluck with your decision. Kath x