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Breast cancer hormone treatment side effects.
Vaginal dryness or irritation.
Alone to treat advanced breast cancer after other hormone drugs like tamoxifen and often an aromatase inhibitor have stopped working.
Your periods will stop if you are taking a luteinising hormone lh blocker.
Hormones that women have in their body estrogen and progesterone can be fuel for some types of breast cancer they help the cells grow and spread.
Comparison chart of hormonal therapy side effects.
Risk of heart attack angina heart failure and hypercholesterolemia 20 bone loss joint pain 21 24 mood swings and depression.
Tamoxifen and other serms can cause.
Impotence in men with breast cancer.
For more information on any of these side effects visit the treatment side effects section.
Your periods may stop or become lighter if you are taking tamoxifen.
You might also get other menopausal symptoms even if you ve already had your menopause.
On the whole keeping in view the hormone therapy for breast cancer pros and cons hormone therapy is a good treatment option and the need for refusing hormone therapy for breast cancer is very less.
Side effects of hormone therapy for breast cancer include.
In combination with a cdk 4 6 inhibitor or pi3k inhibitor to treat metastatic breast cancer as initial hormone therapy or after other hormone treatments have been tried.
It is given by injections into the buttocks.
Side effects for ais consist of.
Hot flashes low sex drive trouble getting an erection bone loss and a higher risk for fractures tiredness weight gain lower muscle mass memory problems higher risk of other health problems.
Joint and muscle pain.
This could be temporary or permanent.