tamoxifen

Converse of object

• take: In most women the benefits of taking tamoxifen outweigh the risks.
• receive: The main finding was a 49 % reduction in the incidence of breast cancer among the participants who were randomly assigned to receive tamoxifen.
• use: The risk is small compared to the benefits of using tamoxifen to treat breast cancer.
• compare: Review This review sought information on all trials in early breast cancer begun before 1990 comparing adjuvant tamoxifen versus no such treatment.
• show: Tamoxifen A randomized controlled trial has shown that tamoxifen reduces the risk of developing breast cancer in women at increased risk for the disease.
• give: They were either given 20 mg tamoxifen daily for five years or a placebo.

Preposition: for

• cancer: Tamoxifen for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomized trials.
• prevention: There are other ongoing randomized trials in Europe testing the efficacy of tamoxifen for the primary prevention of breast cancer.
• woman: There have been a few studies of tamoxifen for women who have advanced ovarian cancer that hasn't responded to chemotherapy treatment.

Adjective modifier

adjuvant: Randomized trial of two versus five years of adjuvant tamoxifen for post-menopausal early stage breast cancer.

Modifies a noun

• therapy: These appear to persist despite four years of tamoxifen therapy and increase prior to relapse in some patients.
• treatment: The included trials were conducted in women with metastatic breast cancer after the failure of the tamoxifen treatment.
• citrate: Tamoxifen citrate is the only approved chemopreventive agent for breast cancer.
• trial: McDonald CC, Stewart HJ: Fatal myocardial infarction in the Scottish adjuvant tamoxifen trial.

Noun used with modifier

• drug: The thought came to mind after we looked at the success of the drug tamoxifen in fighting - and preventing - breast cancer.
• term: Q: Regarding the therapeutic effects of estrogens, more more women these days are on long term tamoxifen for breast cancer.
• treatment: Hormone treatment Doctors have been looking at the hormone treatment tamoxifen to treat advanced ovarian cancer.