News tagged with 'Nolvadex'

A new study published in the journal Nature, finds 35 percent of women who take the drug tamoxifen to prevent the return of breast cancer do not respond to the drug -- and scientists think they have figured out why.

New research indicates that use of the breast cancer medication tamoxifen, sold under the brand name Nolvadex, may prevent the disease in healthy women. Published in the medical journal The Lancet, the inquiry, conducted by scientists with Cancer Research UK, analyzed data from previous studies using tamoxifen for bre

The Canadian health ministry has issued a warning to health care professionals about the possible dangers of using the breast cancer medication tamoxifen. Sold in the United States under the brand name Nolvadex, tamoxifen has been linked to stroke, pulmonary embolism and cancer of the uterus. Although Canadian health

Recent studies linking the cancer medication tamoxifen, sold in the United States under the brand name Nolvadex, to the potential risk of venous thromboembolism (pulmonary embolism) has caused Britain's Medicines Control Agency (MCA) to order an investigation of the drug. The MCA's announcement comes after the Interna

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP have added a boxed warning and strengthened the WARNINGS section of the label for Tamoxifen Citrate, sold under the brand name Nolvadex. The warning informs healthcare professionals about new risk information of particular relevance to wome

Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center released a study today that questions the safety of the widely used breast cancer drug tamoxifen. The study, which was published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggests that women who take tamoxifen and suffer from a reoccurrence of cancer, may