Re: Rare Side Effect Is Seen in Long-Term Use of a Breast Cancer Drug

 nteresting article regarding Tamoxifen. My Grandmother was given this medicine after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 69. She lived for 7 years after and died at the age of 76. I was young, but remember seeing her prescription for Tamoxifen, as I would routinely goto the pharmacy to pick up. The weird thing is that she died of uterine cancer, I wonder if Tamoxifen had anything to do with that?

Definitely, Tamoxifen has been linked to cervical, uterine, liver and other cancers. This has been known for a long time but it was only about 3 years ago that they finally admitted publicly that it increased the risk of cervical cancer. They still have not made the other cancers caused by Tamoxifen public, but this information is in the medical journals.