[Wellness] RE: Femara

["Karen Patterson" <Patterson@womens-wellness.com>]

I have not taken Femara but I have done research on it that I can share with you.  You could search the archives for Femara also and maybe someone discussed their side effects or experience.  I hope you find something useful to your situation.  Also some of this research is a couple years old so I may go out and see what new research may have been completed.  Good luck,

Karen Patterson, Founder of Womens-Wellness.com and a breast cancer survivor

 

  http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_serd.html 

 

  http://www.breastcancer.org/cmty_trans_2002_09_19.html 

 

  http://www.breastcancer.org/cmty_trans_2003_04.html

 

Related Areas

April 2003 Ask-the-Expert Conference: Aromatase Inhibitors

http://www.breastcancer.org/cmty_trans_2003_04.html

Sept. 2002 Ask-the-Expert Conference: Alternatives to Tamoxifen

http://www.breastcancer.org/cmty_trans_2002_09_19.html

Another approach to anti-estrogen therapy is to lower the amount of estrogen

being produced by the body. This method contrasts with that of SERMs or

ERDs, which block estrogen?s ability to "turn on" cancer cells. Limiting the

amount of estrogen produced means there is less estrogen available to reach

cancer cells and make them grow.

In post-menopausal women, estrogen is no longer produced by the ovaries, but

is converted from androgen, another hormone. Aromatase inhibitors keep

androgen from being converted to estrogen. That means less estrogen in the

bloodstream, and less estrogen reaching estrogen receptors to trigger

trouble.

Arimidex (chemical name: anastrozole), Femara (chemical name: letrozole),

and Aromasin (chemical name: exemestane) are the aromatase inhibitors in

current use, primarily for post-menopausal women with metastatic breast

cancer (cancer that has spread beyond the breast). Each is taken in pill

form.

In the past, these medications were most commonly used by women who may have

already tried other anti-estrogen therapies, such as tamoxifen, and whose

cancer was no longer controlled by those drugs. Now with the results of new

studies, many doctors

http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_serd.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_serm.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_newOpt.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_role.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_abst3.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_abst1.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_abst129.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/letrozole_femara.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_celebrex.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_asco2003a.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_120002b.html Zometa

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_050503a.html memory

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_050002.html Neurontin for hot

flashes

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_hormonal_000002.html

http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_sys_hrt_erds.html

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Aren694@aol.com [mailto:Aren694@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:39 PM
To: Patterson@womens-wellness.com
Subject: Femara

I have been on Tamoxifen for a year and now my Oncologist recently switched me to Femara . (I am now post-menapausal for a year).  Has anyone heard anything negative about this drug.  I gained a lot of weight on Tamoxifen but that seemed to be my only side effect.   Any feedback would be appreciated.

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