Breast Cancer Treatment Drugs – Aromasin
The extract below is from a series of cancer-related articles. This article focuses on breast cancer and breast cancer treatment drugs …
Exemestane tablets that have the brand name Aromasin is a prescription medicine that can be prescribed by your doctor. Pfizer Company is responsible for developing this drug and has been in use since 1999 for women with advanced cancer of the breast who are also postmenopausal. This drug is for women who have gone through menopause, have breast cancer that responds to hormone therapy, and has taken tamoxifen for two to three years. If your doctor believes you would benefit from this drug, you would stop taking tamoxifen and begin taking Aromasin. You would remain on Aromasin for the five years after surgery that tamoxifen is taken.
Studies of women who have successfully switched from tamoxifen to Aromasin have a thirty-one percent lower risk of breast cancer recurrence. This is a significant number and should be examined carefully for the benefits of switching from tamoxifen.
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