The way tamoxifen works is you’re depriving your cancer cells of estrogen, which is their nutrition, so that will only work for the cancers that are estrogen-fed or progesterone-fed.

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Patients willsay I started taking tamoxifen and I gained 40 pounds, but that’s probably a combination of hormonal and lifestyle changes they’re going through. Tamoxifen can cause some fluid retention, and it could maybe cause a 2- or 3-pound weight gain, but beyond that there are probably other things going on as well.

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If a woman becomes post-menopausal during those five or 10 years she’s on tamoxifen, we will switch her to this other group of drugs that is 20 to 25 percent more effective.

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