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WASHINGTON (September 8, 2016)-- An animal study suggests that resistance to tamoxifen therapy in some estrogen receptor positive breast cancers may originate from in utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
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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.
Of these variants, reported today in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, 65 are common variants that predispose to breast cancer and a further seven predispose specifically to oestrogen - receptor negative breast cancer - the subset of cases that do not respond to hormonal therapies, such as the drug tamoxifen.
«By paralleling tamoxifen», says McCague, «hopefully minimal side effects will result, which is an important consideration in the long - term therapy of elderly patients.»
There are also preventive therapies — such as tamoxifen or the trial drug anastrazole — that interfere with the production of the hormone oestrogen, implicated in many breast cancers.
Letrozole is approved by the FDA for the adjuvant treatment of early - stage breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have already been treated with 5 years of tamoxifen therapy.
It was used in this study for the first time to study factors that cause estrogen receptor positive breast cancer to recur during tamoxifen therapy.
Researchers further demonstrated that changes in these genes were reversed by adding well - tolerated epigenetic modifying drugs, valproic acid and hydralazine, to tamoxifen therapy regimen.
Now, all breast cancers are classified as estrogen - receptor positive or negative, an important guide to prognosis and therapy, and medications, such as tamoxifen, that can block the effects of estrogen have become important tools in the treatment and possible prevention of breast cancer.
One study showed that when curcumin is used together with tamoxifen in treating melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer), the combined therapy selectively killed cancerous cells while preserving noncancerous cells.
New Drug Therapies for Breast Cancer Tamoxifen has been used for twenty years in the treatment of advanced breast cancer.