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Tamoxifen and ovary removal
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Doctor's Answer
by CCF-RN,MSN-rf, Aug 27, 2001 12:00AM
Dear lucyloo: Although the ovaries are a primary source of estrogen, they do not account for all of the estrogen in the body. In other words, removing the ovaries would eliminate most of the estrogen, it would not take care of all of it. Tamoxifen would still be recommended at the standard dose. For this reason, removing the ovaries is not usually done. Tamoxifen is given to ER/PR + women even if they are post menopausal.
