Tomoxofin after Masectomy?

Breast cancer of any stage may have already started spreading to other parts of your body, like the bones, lungs, liver or brain. Current medical technology cannot detect tiny metastases, but we know they are sometimes there, because recurrences happen many years down the line. The job of tamoxifen is to block the body's estrogen from attaching to the receptors in any stray breast cancer cells and preventing them from growing.



You could use medicine (lupron) or surgery (ovary removal) to stop estrogen production in your body, but those tactics have severe side effects:menopausal hot flashes, loss of libido, weight gain, bone loss, and heart issues. So why would you want to? tamoxifen offers the same cancer-preventive effects without so many side effects. In fact, premenopausal women on tamoxifen get heart and bone benefits.