Popular Breast Cancer Drug Increases the Risk of Uterine Cancer
Tamoxifen is another choice of treatment of breast cancer.
It is an antagonist of the estrogen receptor in breast tissue.
Tamoxifen acts as an anti estrogen and hence widely used for hormone-positive early breast cancer in post-menopausal women.
Some breast cancer cells need ample amount of estrogen in order to grow in size and progress.
Estrogen binds with the receptors of cancer cells activate it and make them progress.
Tamoxifen too has similar action.
It is metabolized into compounds that also bind to the estrogen receptor.
But the main difference is that it does not activate the estrogen receptors in cancer cells it merely binds with them thereby blocking the estrogens.
This can be termed as competitive antagonism.
But the side effects of Tamoxifen can be quite daunting and outweigh its potential benefits.
Those promoting Tamoxifen often fail to mention how many women taking this drug suffer from blood clots, retinopathy, hot flashes, night sweats and overall diminishing quality of life.
But the most serious side effect of all is the increased susceptibility to uterine cancer.
So many women are forced to have hysterectomy due to Tamoxifen induced uterine cancer.
A large number of them die because this drug induced cancer.
This drug is also increasing being associated with liver cancer and wide range of eye related problems including retinopathy and cataract.
If the side effects of Tamoxifen are so bad then why it is being used in the first place? It is mainly because there is nothing much left to do when it comes to treating breast cancer.
The other options are radiation and surgery.
If someone is starving to the bone even dirty and putrefied rice will seem like nectar.
The same analogy can be applied to Tamoxifen.
The approach is let the immediate issue (breast cancer) be addressed first other complications can be attended to at a later stage.
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It is an antagonist of the estrogen receptor in breast tissue.
Tamoxifen acts as an anti estrogen and hence widely used for hormone-positive early breast cancer in post-menopausal women.
Some breast cancer cells need ample amount of estrogen in order to grow in size and progress.
Estrogen binds with the receptors of cancer cells activate it and make them progress.
Tamoxifen too has similar action.
It is metabolized into compounds that also bind to the estrogen receptor.
But the main difference is that it does not activate the estrogen receptors in cancer cells it merely binds with them thereby blocking the estrogens.
This can be termed as competitive antagonism.
But the side effects of Tamoxifen can be quite daunting and outweigh its potential benefits.
Those promoting Tamoxifen often fail to mention how many women taking this drug suffer from blood clots, retinopathy, hot flashes, night sweats and overall diminishing quality of life.
But the most serious side effect of all is the increased susceptibility to uterine cancer.
So many women are forced to have hysterectomy due to Tamoxifen induced uterine cancer.
A large number of them die because this drug induced cancer.
This drug is also increasing being associated with liver cancer and wide range of eye related problems including retinopathy and cataract.
If the side effects of Tamoxifen are so bad then why it is being used in the first place? It is mainly because there is nothing much left to do when it comes to treating breast cancer.
The other options are radiation and surgery.
If someone is starving to the bone even dirty and putrefied rice will seem like nectar.
The same analogy can be applied to Tamoxifen.
The approach is let the immediate issue (breast cancer) be addressed first other complications can be attended to at a later stage.
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turmeric-cancer.
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