Women Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Tamoxifen Risk Recurrence-If Taking Certain Antidepressants
Women Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Tamoxifen Risk Recurrence-If Taking Certain Antidepressants.
Breast cancer is the most common major cancer in American women. More than 182,000 new cases were diagnosed 2008, and it caused nearly 41,000 deaths.
But, “Breast cancer survivors risk having their cancer come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen,” states a new research.
There are close to 500,000 women in the United States taking tamoxifen, a drug that helps cut in half the chances of a breast cancer recurrence. Many of them also take antidepressants for hot flashes, because hormone pills are not considered safe after breast cancer.
It has been a while now that physicians have known that some antidepressants and other medicines can lower the amount of tamoxifen’s active form in the bloodstream. But if those affects cause a cancer risk, that is unknown.
The new study, reported that those drugs interfering with tamoxifen are Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft. They can virtually wipe out the benefit tamoxifen provides for women cancer survivors.
Many doctors question the magnitude of harm from combining these medicines, and a second, smaller study suggests it may not be very large, but do you want to take the risk?
Not all antidepressants pose this problem with tamoxifen and women should talk to their specialist about which ones are best.
For the full story of “Women Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Tamoxifen Risk Recurrence-If Taking Certain Antidepressants‘” go to Yahoo.com .All women who are surviving Breast Cancer Survivors and are taking tamoxifen need to read this report.
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