Breast Cancer Hormone Treatment Side Effects

Hormones that women have in their body estrogen and progesterone can be fuel for some types of breast cancer they help the cells grow and spread.

Breast cancer hormone treatment side effects. Your periods may stop or become lighter if you are taking tamoxifen. 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. On the whole keeping in view the hormone therapy for breast cancer pros and cons hormone therapy is a good treatment option and the need for refusing hormone therapy for breast cancer is very less. Hot flashes low sex drive trouble getting an erection bone loss and a higher risk for fractures tiredness weight gain lower muscle mass memory problems higher risk of other health problems.

You might also get other menopausal symptoms even if you ve already had your menopause. It is given by injections into the buttocks. 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. Hot flashes fatigue mood swings vaginal dryness vaginal discharge.

Joint and muscle pain. Pdf version 135kb. For more information on any of these side effects visit the treatment side effects section. Vaginal dryness or irritation.

Side effects of hormone therapy for breast cancer include. Side effects for ais consist of. Impotence in men with breast cancer. Alone to treat advanced breast cancer after other hormone drugs like tamoxifen and often an aromatase inhibitor have stopped working.

This could be temporary or permanent. Your periods will stop if you are taking a luteinising hormone lh blocker. Tamoxifen and other serms can cause.