Your periods may stop or become lighter if you are taking tamoxifen.
Breast cancer hormone treatment side effects.
You might also get other menopausal symptoms even if you ve already had your menopause.
Side effects for ais consist of.
Tamoxifen and other serms can cause.
Joint and muscle pain.
The table below gives you a summary of some of the most common possible side effects of the different hormonal therapy medicines so you can do a general side by side comparison.
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.
Hormone therapy also called endocrine.
This could be temporary or permanent.
Risk of heart attack angina heart failure and hypercholesterolemia 20 bone loss joint pain 21 24 mood swings and depression.
Vaginal dryness or irritation.
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.
For more information on any of these side effects visit the treatment side effects section.
Hot flashes fatigue mood swings vaginal dryness vaginal discharge.
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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.
It is given by injections into the buttocks.
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.
Your periods will stop if you are taking a luteinising hormone lh blocker.