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Adjuvant AIs Cut Cancer Recurrence Risk, Compared With Tamoxifen
Adjuvant AIs Cut Cancer Recurrence Risk, Compared With Tamoxifen
K Wachter
20081112
2008 Dec 12
Elsevier Global Medical News
Adjuvant AIs Cut Cancer Recurrence Risk, Compared With Tamoxifen
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Dec 12, K Wachter
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (EGMN) - Adjuvant therapy with aromatase inhibitors for postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer significantly decreases the risk of recurrent disease, compared with tamoxifen, whether given as initial monotherapy or after several years of tamoxifen, results of two meta-analyses suggest.Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) produced significantly lower recurrence rates, compared with tamoxifen, in both cohorts, which together included more than 18,000 women. In cohort...