Breast Cancer Hormone Drugs Side Effects

The table below gives you a summary of some of the most common possible side effects of the different hormonal therapy medicines so you can do a general side by side comparison.

Breast cancer hormone drugs side effects. Alone to treat advanced breast cancer after other hormone drugs like tamoxifen and often an aromatase inhibitor have stopped working. Comparison chart of hormonal therapy side effects. In combination with a cdk 4 6 inhibitor or pi3k inhibitor to treat metastatic breast cancer as initial hormone therapy or after other hormone treatments have been tried. But aromatase inhibitors can cause more heart problems more bone loss osteoporosis and more broken bones than tamoxifen at least for the first few years of treatment.

These medications may have some side effects. Hot flashes mood swings night sweats osteoporosis vaginal discharge and vaginal dryness are. If you re having hormone therapy for prostate cancer side effects might. I counsel patients every week regarding management of many of these side effects from these medications particularly the effects of these medications on desire sexual response and vaginal dryness.

Joint and muscle pain. Joint and muscle pain. Risk of heart attack angina heart failure and hypercholesterolemia 20 bone loss. The pain may be in the hands and wrists feet and ankles knees back or other parts of the body.

Selective estrogen receptor modulators. Side effects of aromatase inhibitors aromatase inhibitors tend to cause fewer serious side effects than tamoxifen such as blood clots stroke and endometrial cancer. Also called serms these drugs prevent breast cancer cells from binding to. If you re getting hormone therapy for breast cancer you might notice.

Because these drugs affect hormones side effects often include symptoms associated with menopause. There are several types of hormone therapy to treat breast cancer including. Joint pain arthralgia and muscle pain myalgia are common side effects of aromatase inhibitors 99 101. For more information on any of these side effects visit the treatment side effects section.

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