Tamoxifen

Tamoxifen TAMOXIFEN 1. Why shouldn’t everyone all women take the drug tamoxifen' Which category of women may be helped' Why might “more women be harmed than helped' It couldn’t be determined which women were at high risk. It was not sure that tamoxifen would not cure breast cancer “but prevent it.” Many women have died or developed cancer of the uterine lining or blood clots. 2. How does tamoxifen work in the body' It prevents the hormone estrogen from over stimulating breast tissue. PATTERN AND OBSERVATION: It prevents the hormone estrogen from over stimulating breast tissue. PREDICTION: If 85 women developed cancer when they took tamoxifen against against 154 women who took a placebo. Then: Tamoxifen should be given to the 154 who have developed cancer. EXPERIMENT: Remove breast tissue from both category of women to see what is causing the cancer. PATTERN OF RESULTS: The % of women should be less in developing breast women, cancer, tamoxifen, breast, cells, tissue, lining, cancerous, herceptin, gene, uterine, should, protein, prevents, pattern, normal, developed, develop, uterus, took, stimulating, results, remove, receptors, prediction, placebo, over, observation, monial, less, inject, hormone, her2, helped, given