Sentences with phrase «tamoxifen increases»

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The use of fertility medication, such as Clomid, Tamoxifen, or injectable gonadotropins, increases the chance of pregnancy.

Breast Cancer Care comment on claims that long - term use of Tamoxifen may increase proportion of oestrogen receptor (ER) negative cancers which develop in the opposite breast

«The study shows that long - term use of Tamoxifen does not increase incidence of breast cancer in the opposite breast, but it may increase the proportion of oestrogen receptor negative cancers.

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

Tamoxifen has been linked to an increased risk of endometrial and liver cancers.

As reported by Noh et al. (43), tamoxifen transiently increases plasma TG levels, which return to normal 2 weeks after the last administration.

«Tamoxifen can cause vaginal bleeding and increase risk for endometrial cancer, so we make sure breast cancer patients [taking it] see a gynecologist on a regular basis,» says Dr. Andrews.

Another study published in the journal Cancer Biotherapy and Biopharmaceuticals found that FWGE in conjunction with the ER + breast cancer chemotherapy drug Tamoxifen «significantly increased apoptosis already 24 hours after starting treatment.»

The drug tamoxifen, for instance, helps many women with breast cancer, but they pay the price of an increased risk of endometrial cancer.1 Medicine would do much better concentrating on genuine prevention — especially through nutrition.

A recent study of women whose cancer was treated with tamoxifen therapy and who were also taking the antidepressant paroxetine demonstrates the potential problems of using these drugs: the patients increased their risk of death by 91 %.