Hormone question...Tamoxifen

DV8Q
DV8Q Member Posts: 65
edited June 2014 in IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)

I am seriously confused about the information in this website can someone please explain this to memaybe its chemobbrain

when I went to the page on this site for info about  hormones it gave two statistics

"Women whos cancers are PR positive but ER negative have about a 10% chance of responding to hormonal therapy"

 Then a few sentances down it reads  "If you are estrogen receptor positive only (ER+/PR-) or progesterone recepter positive only (ER-/PR+) you have a 33% chance of responding

My doc wants me to do 5yrs of tamox after the chemo is done and I am just collecting research to decide. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2009

    I think it is because the er+ is the stronger of the hormones and it is the one that my oncologist said I needed to make disappear from my body...I never see much about the pr+ part....mine was er+ 95% and the pr+ 55% so the discussions about the two stopped and I agreed to take tamox...

    Ive been relatively lucky with it so far as my onco started me out on 10mg twice a day, then after about 18 months I choose to go to the full dose of 20 mg in one dose....Ive been on it for just over 2 yrs now and have few side effects...I hope this will be the same with you.

    Best wishes

    Jule

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  • DV8Q
    DV8Q Member Posts: 65
    edited March 2009

    Thanks for your post, its good to know that there are steps in the doseing instead of the full deal.

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