Birth control pills or an anti-androgen drug calledAldactone(spironolactone) to treat hirsutism or acne Weight loss to manage insulin resistance and other symptoms if overweight or obese Femara(letrozole) if fertility issues are present Surgery is generally the treatment of choice forCushing's disease...
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The development of autoantibodies alone is not sufficient reason to discontinue the medication Patients treated with medications such as tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and minocycline who develop an apparent 'flare' of the disease should be evaluated for the possibility of drug-related lupus ...
1. Anastrozole and letrozole have the triazole functional group that interacts with the heme prosthetic group of aromatase, and they act as competitive inhibitors with respect to the androgen substrates. Exemestane is a mechanism-based inhibitor that is catalytically converted into a chemically reactive...
(flutamide and finasteride, or Casodex and finasteride) in utero (3 males, 7 females; for details of drug treatments, see [55]); or (C) treatment with an aromatase inhibitor (Letrozole, preventing the synthesis of estrogen) in utero (1 male, 1 female; for details of Letrozole treatment ...
Herb-drug interactionPhytoestrogenBackground Despite the increased use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by breast cancer patients, there is little published information regarding CAM use in the Scottish breast cancer population. Methods A questionnaire comprising five sections鈥攄emographics; ...
Yet, as with all prolonged drug therapy, resistance to aromatase inhibitors does develop. To date, the precise mechanism responsible for resistance to aromatase inhibitors is not completely understood. In this paper, several mechanisms of de novo/intrinsic resistance and acquired resistance to AIs are...
Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in women under the age of 40 years worldwide. In addition, the incidence of breast cancer in young women (BCYW) has been rising. Young women are not the focus of screening programs and BC in younger women tends to...
This is particularly relevant in patients with breast cancer, where tamoxifen, letrozole and anastrozole regularly form part of neoadju- vant and adjuvant management. A retrospective cohort study including 358 patients with breast cancer who had undergone reconstructive mastectomy investigated the effects ...