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Any long-term success stories from those NOT taking hormone therapy?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: 14 hours ago | Replies (29)
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I have read that up to a third of cases the women develop resistance to AIs, and wonder why there is no procedure to identify those women, so would know we could stop the AI...

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myoga | @myoga | 2 days ago

I read something like that a while ago and was surprised that the percentage of resistance is so high! I’m currently taking letrozole after 2 years of anastrozole and exemestane. My er is in the 90%, so I have to take AI hoping that will buy me more time. I also read that taking drug vacation is a good thing specifically with letrozole.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2491346/
We do what we can and hope that it works.

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