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Men with breast cancer: Your experience wth hormonal therapy?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 9 2:59pm | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Welcome, @cstark46. I moved your message to this discussion about hormonal treatments for breast cancer in men, specifically.
- Men with breast cancer: Your experience wth hormonal therapy? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/male-breast-cancer/
I did this so you can see the previous posts and connect with other men, like @dick61 and @rpfricker, who are taking hormonal therapy for breast cancer. They are taking tamoxifen. Leuprolide is also commonly used in men with prostate cancer.
Cstark, when will you start hormonal therapy? Do you know for how long?
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I have ER+ breast cancer and am 15 months post mastectomy, 6 node removal (3 positive) and 16 proton radiation treatments. Surgery in 4/21. I am taking 20 mg of tamoxifen and have daily headaches that I try to ignore. I had a cording issue that PT resolved and now a pectoral muscle/shoulder issue that, again, PT is helping. Otherwise, I am back to normal. I am about to be 83. My Mayo oncologist never mentioned another drug, but I did have a genetic test to confirm that I was properly metabolizing tamoxifen. Good luck to you. Hope surgery and follow up treatment goes well.
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Thank you Colleen, I cannot take tamoxifen so my interest is only with the Leuprolide and Letrozole. Is it worth taking these meds given the efficacy and risk reward? Can Letrozole be taken alone?