Fulvestrant, also known as ICI 182,780, is a medication treatment of hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression following anti-estrogen therapy. It is an estrogen receptor Receptor antagonist with no agonist effects, which works bo...
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Positive Experiences with Cancer
Medications Change
...onc yesterday--who has an excellent reputation--and she encouraged me to start with Aromasin/Afinitor rather than Faslodex because my cancer is estrogen positive but progesterone negative. So she...
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Hi Kim
I am on tykerb for liver mets...the tykerb, herceptin, faslodex brought my tumor markers down, and my pet scan was better...this was started in may...now tumor markers going up slightly,...
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...I too take Mobic for my arthritis--probably masks the mets pain and the pain from the Faslodex. I also take 300mg gabapentin AM & PM for nerve pain for the neuropahty from the first...
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...She then had me take tamoxifen for two years, then Faslodex. I saw a second ...surprised that my doctor had me take Tamoxifen because of my age. But here it put my bone mets to sleep for...
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...in a slightly different way, although both seem to be equally effective. I've been on Xgeva for 18 months with Faslodex for bone mets, and both have worked together to keep me stable. I hope I...
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...& chemo will eliminate the tumor in the hip. She ...like Femara any longer, they put her on faslodex. Has she been on Zometa ...well for me with my spinal bone mets....
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I feel for you.... I have had much success reducing the pain of bone mets with radiation. I am now on Faslodex because it is better for bone mets - though not better for liver mets. Maybe...
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...1/2 dose without any problem. Have had full doses since and although my bones ache, it's bearable.
I was originally on letrozole (generic femara), it stopped working and I'm now on faslodex shots...
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I was on letrozole from July 2011 until ...(since 10/11) and now get faslodex monthly.
Last summer I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (heart rate in 170's),...
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...stage IV forum. I had stage III cancer, then about 23 years later had metastases to bones (skull, ribs, pelvis) and liver. I started Faslodex, Xgeva and Femara the day...
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