Cancer Treatment: Aromatase Inhibitors More Effective Than Tamoxifen In Preventing Cancer From Coming Back
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
Two separate meta-analyses of clinical trials from around the world that tested tamoxifen against aromatase inhibitor drugs in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer have each reached the same conclusion: aromatase inhibitors are more effective in preventing breast cancer from coming back. Patients using aromatase inhibitors had more than a 3 percent lower cancer recurrence 6-8 years after diagnosis, compared to women using tamoxifen alone.