Anastrozole is the endocrine therapy drugs, one day, the patient’s body by inhibiting aromatase, so that post-menopausal patients who can not be produced by the adrenal androgen into estrogen, so estrogen levels decrease, reaching right estrogen receptor-positive tumor cells, inhibit, reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence or metastasis.
The drug has some side effects, can generally be tolerated, waves of heat, fatigue, skin rashes, as well as osteoporosis and so on. In the drug described in greater detail instructions. Individual people may have insomnia or sleepiness. Usually doctors will advise patients to osteoporosis and prevent fractures. You can disable Anastrozole 1 ~ 2 weeks, if the sleep has improved, describe your insomnia may be related to it. If you do sleep with anastrozole related, you can switch to another similar drug, commodity Mingjiaoanuo new, is an aromatase inhibitor, anastrozole, but it’s chemical structure is different, it may cause side effects are also some differences. If you still have the same side effects, then these drugs can not be used in. Phenol could be replaced by tamoxifen, these drugs with anastrozole and other aromatase inhibitors, a different mechanism of action, can be used in premenopausal and postmenopausal patients. The anastrozole be used only for post-menopausal patients. Based on current medical research results show that with anastrozole consecutive 5-year clinical results from the overall look than with tamoxifen phenol 5 years better.