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    Tamoxifen, sold under the brand name Nolvadex among others, is a selective estrogen receptor modulator used to prevent breast cancer in women and men...
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    SERMs are used dependent on their pattern of action in various tissues: Tamoxifen is a first-line hormonal treatment of ER-positive metastatic breast cancer...
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    N-Desmethyltamoxifen (developmental code name ICI-55,548) is a major metabolite of tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM). N-Desmethyltamoxifen...
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  • Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) is a clinical trial from the early 2000s designed determine how the drug raloxifene compares with the drug tamoxifen in...
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    effective than tamoxifen or raloxifene. Tamoxifen may be used to treat gynecomastia in adults and of the medical treatments used, tamoxifen is the most effective...
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    the treatment and prevention of breast cancer in women. The Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination (ATAC) trial was of localized breast cancer and...
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    women with breast cancer. Tamoxifen (a SERM) traditionally was the drug treatment of choice, but the ATAC trial (Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination)...
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    treatment of some cases of gynecomastia but it is not as effective as tamoxifen or raloxifene for this indication. It has shown variable results for gynecomastia...
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    receptor positive or has an unknown receptor status in postmenopausal women. Tamoxifen is also used to treat hormonally-responsive breast cancer, but it does...
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    active metabolite of tamoxifen and has been found to be effective in patients that have failed previous hormonal therapies (tamoxifen, aromatase inhibitors...
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    recombinase, resulting in Cre becoming specifically activated by tamoxifen. In the absence of tamoxifen, CreER will result in the shuttling of the mutated recombinase...
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    positive early breast cancer who have received two to three years of tamoxifen and are switched to it for completion of a total of five consecutive years...
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  • documented rarely with the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) tamoxifen and raloxifene. The phenomenon indicates that these agents can somehow...
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    Further, these knockouts can be inducible. In several mouse studies, tamoxifen is used to induce the Cre recombinase. In this case, Cre recombinase is...
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  • toxicities of tamoxifen. Tamoxifen has been a very effective drug for the treatment of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. But tamoxifen has certain...
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  • recombinase, resulting in Cre becoming specifically activated by tamoxifen. In the absence of tamoxifen, CreER will result in the shuttling of the mutated recombinase...
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  • Antiestrogens include selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) like tamoxifen, clomifene, and raloxifene, the ER silent antagonist and selective estrogen...
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  • Metastatic breast cancer, tamoxifen can be prescribed to selectively block estrogen's effect on certain cells. SERMs like tamoxifen attach to receptors on...
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  • gefitinib-resistant NSCLC cell lines. In breast cancer, the acquisition of tamoxifen resistance is another major therapeutic problem. It has been shown that...
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  • Introduction of laser therapy in treatment of cancer 1960  – Invention of tamoxifen breast cancer anti-estrogen (SERM) hormonal therapy drug 1961  – Vincristine...
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    receptor-positive breast cancer. It was shown to overcome antiestrogen (tamoxifen, aromatase inhibitor, fulvestrant) resistance in breast cancer by altering...
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  • therapy in oncology is the use of the selective estrogen-response modulator tamoxifen for the treatment of breast cancer, although another class of hormonal...
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    reaction is a key step in the (non-stereoselective) industrial production of Tamoxifen (currently used for the treatment of estrogen receptor positive breast...
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    closely related to tamoxifen. Toremifene was introduced for medical use in 1997. It was the first antiestrogen to be introduced since tamoxifen in 1978. It is...
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    taking pills that contain estrogen without progesterone, a history of tamoxifen use, late menopause, and a family history of the condition. Risk factors...
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    120 mg/m2/day. In the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) trial, 60 mg/day raloxifene was 78% as effective as 20 mg/day tamoxifen in preventing non-invasive...
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    genistein, miroestrol) Selective estrogen receptor modulators (e.g., tamoxifen, clomifene, raloxifene) Antiestrogens (e.g., fulvestrant, ICI-164384,...
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  • Saxagliptin Sebelipase alfa Selumetinib Sodium zirconium cyclosilicate Tamoxifen Ticagrelor Tixagevimab/cilgavimab Trastuzumab deruxtecan Vandetanib Vaxzevria...
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    reaction due to CYP3A4 includes tamoxifen, which is hydroxylated to 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen and then dehydrated to 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen quinone methide. Two mechanisms...
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  • Medications in use for this effect are mainly clomifene citrate and tamoxifen (both being selective estrogen-receptor modulators), as well as letrozole...
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