Tamoxifen

🧮 Dose calculator

Breast cancer (hormonal therapy) · Regimen source: FDA Tamoxifen · Dosage and Administration

• • Only under an oncologist; dose is adjusted by response and toxicity. FDA Tamoxifen · Dosage and Administration
• • Doses above 20 mg/day split morning and evening. Adjuvant therapy usually 5 years. FDA Tamoxifen · Dosage and Administration

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👥 Special populations

• 🤰 PregnancyDangerous / avoid

  Label: can cause fetal harm. Dangerous in pregnancy. FDA Tamoxifen · Pregnancy

  “Pregnancy Category D Tamoxifen may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman.”

• 🤱 BreastfeedingDangerous / avoid

  Label: breastfeeding not recommended, or choose between the drug and breastfeeding. FDA Tamoxifen · Nursing Mothers

  “Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions in nursing infants from tamoxifen, women taking tamoxifen should not breast-feed.”

• 👶 ChildrenUse with caution

  The label has conditions, age limits or notes for children; the label sentence is quoted below. FDA Tamoxifen · Pediatric Use

  “The safety and efficacy of tamoxifen for girls aged 2 to 10 years with McCune-Albright Syndrome and precocious puberty have not been studied beyond one year of treatment.”

• 👴 Older adultsUse with caution

  Label: use with caution in older adults, usually starting at the low end of the dose range. FDA Tamoxifen · Geriatric Use

  “A reduction in breast cancer incidence was seen among participants in each of the subsets: A total of 28 and ten invasive breast cancers were seen among participants 65 and older in the placebo and tamoxifen groups, respectively.”

• ⚥ Females & males of reproductive potentialNo data

  The source for this drug has no section for this group.