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Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 12, 2023 | Replies (1190)
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@jeannie53

@cancersucks I often wonder why our doctors don't support us that we are not the only ones that have stopped the medication. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that has decided not to take the medication but never get reassurance from the doctors that there are many of us choosing quality of life.

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kathyomaha55 | @kathyomaha55 | May 17, 2020

I read that 20% of women stop taking an AI inhibitor in the first 2 years. I don't know if they studied the re occurrence rate among those people. I agree that doctors need to support whatever decision we make. I switched to Exemestane from anastrozole, I find the side effect much more tolerable now - I'm hoping to go the full 5 years. Some patients they are keeping them on it for 10 years. I'd like to see the difference in re-occurrence rates in 5 vs. 10 years treatment. I just know the survival rate of metastasized BC is like only 25%.

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