Ten-year adjuvant hormone therapy for breast cancer: the pros and cons (a review of literature)

Abstract

Tamoxifen is one of the basic drugs of adjuvant hormone therapy in patients with hormone-dependent breast tumors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the results of randomized trials of long-term adjuvant hormone therapy for breast cancer.

Keywords

• breast cancer
• adjuvant hormone therapy
• tamoxifen
• long-term results