Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 15th, 2005
According to researchers from Austria, "Tamoxifen has been the standard adjuvant treatment for postmenopausal women with hormone-responsive early breast cancer for more than 20 years. However, the third-generation aromatase inhibitor anastrozole has proven efficacy and tolerability benefits compared with tamoxifen when used as initial adjuvant therapy."
R. Jakesz and colleagues "investigated whether women who have received a period of adjuvant tamoxifen would benefit from being switched to anastrozole. They presented a combined analysis of...
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