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Would you recommend 10 years instead of 5 years of tamoxifen in a premenopausal woman with early stage, node negative ER/PR/HER2 positive breast cancer?

Pt is healthy and tolerating Tamoxifen well.
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Medical Oncology · Columbia University Medical Center
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Both the ATLAS and aTTom randomized controlled trials demonstrated that 10 years compared to 5 years of tamoxifen improves disease-free and overall survival among women with hormone receptor-positive early stage breast cancer. Most of the benefit was seen in the decrease in late breast cancer recurr...

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