Breast cancer patients with ovarian cysts

Twenty-nine of tamoxifen-treated patients Adjuvant standard chemotherapy did not have relationship between the development of ovarian cysts. Ovarian cysts were diagnosed in 12

We followed a group of women with breast cancer on tamoxifen for the development of ovarian cysts. Development of ovarian cysts is a rather frequent event in women with breast cancer on tamoxifen. We have described an association between pre-menopausal patients using tamoxifen with high E 2 level and ovarian cyst enlargement. The mean duration of tamoxifen therapy was Author information:

Cysts were detected in 28 of 57 pre-menopausal women Author information: Of the 35 tamoxifen-treated patients enrolled in this study, 21 were postmenopausal and 14 were premenopausal.