Interview
with Neil Love, MD from Breast Cancer Update for Medical Oncologists,
Program 1 2000
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The
only time that tamoxifen is an issue for first-line metastatic disease
is in the scenario where they were off tamoxifen for several years.
Do you put them on or do you put them on Arimidex? And, until recently
I was putting them back on tamoxifen. Now I’ll put them on
Arimidex. But, there are so few ER-positive patients with metastatic
disease who haven’t seen adjuvant tamoxifen that it’s
almost a moot point. I think the study is important to tell us how
good Arimidex is, to tell us that Arimidex should be looked in the
adjuvant setting, which it was. And to tell us, if you have a woman
who is prescribed tamoxifen for some reason and has a side effect
or her hairdresser has told her that the drug is terrible, put her
on Arimidex. – period.
