Anti-estrogen breast cancer treatment often comes with endocrine-related side effects, such as joint pain or hot flashes. However, there are strategies that patients and their clinicians can employ to decrease the instance or severity of these toxicities. ...
side effectsSide effects from hormonal therapy (HT) for breast cancer treatment occur frequently and are associated with worse quality of life and HT non-adherence. Whether improved patient-physician communication is associated patients' reporting of side effects is unknown. We undertook this study to...
While we did consider the effects listed on each product label, we paid even more attention to the effects reported by reviewers who had actually used these products as a part of an acne treatment plan. How long did it take them to see results? Did they notice an improvement...
Treatment with a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue after successful orchiopexy markedly improves the chance of fertility later in life. of germ cells but who had not received hormonal treatment after successful orchiopexy.Patients who received hormonal therapy after orchiopexy had significantly...
"Despite this, many breast cancer patients stop taking their aromatase inhibitor treatment —which is usually prescribed for five years — or do not adhere to their treatment prescription," she said, adding that this may be due to, at least in part, the side effects associated with the drugs...
50,51 It is well documented, however, that the side effects of the combined treatment is greater than hormonal therapy alone including diarrhea and rectal bleeding as well as dyspnea and fatigue. View chapterExplore book Hormonal Treatment of Breast Cancer Stéphanie BécourtMarc Espié, in ...
Hormonal treatment of breast cancer has been revisited during the last few years. New drugs have been introduced and shown to improve patient outcome, both with regard to efficacy and side effects. Historical aspects and newer developments are presented. New drugs such as second- and third-generat...
In advanced , hormonal treatment gives good response with few side effects. In young patient, the treatment is based on TAM. It could be associated with OS. In post-menopausal women, AIs are more potent than TAM. They are used in the first line treatment and TAM as a second line. is ...
"The near doubling of time to disease progression seen in the everolimus plus tamoxifen treatment arm reinforces the potential benefit of inhibiting mTOR to help overcome endocrine therapy resistance," Dr. Bachelot, said in a news release. He added that based on the results, additional studies ...
Impotence: Role of Drug and Hormonal TreatmentImpotence: Role of Drug and Hormonal TreatmentTen acromegalics, 6 females and 4 males, aged 24 to 75, have been treated with bromocriptine (CB). Six patients responded clinically to CB: two subsequently escaped control, three have been treated contin...