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Due to the thrombotic nature of COVID-19, should we be discontinuing tamoxifen temporarily in patients with an active infection?

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Medical Oncology · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

It is not clear (at least to me) what the thrombogenic potential of COVID-19 is, or in what settings it manifests (i.e., hospitalized patient with an increasing O2 required or intubated, in which there are some preliminary reports, versus the asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients). It seems...

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