Quality
of life with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy
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What
has always impressed me about neoadjuvant endocrine therapy is that
you can achieve – I would say – a similar change in tumor
volume over a slightly longer period of time with much less side
effects if you select your patients properly. I think what’s
interesting is we’ve done some quality of life studies –
psychology studies – and patients don’t mind taking neoadjuvant
endocrine therapy for a few months. Their quality of life is tremendous.
The number of women that have side effects is very small because
these are an elderly population, who get very few side effects from
tamoxifen and anastrozole. So, they think it’s great.
