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Breast Cancer (Expert Forum)
post menopausal bleeding after chemo for inflammatory breast ca
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Doctor's Answer
by CCF-RN,MSN-rf, Apr 28, 2005 12:00AM
Dear lyleclaude: Chemotherapy commonly causes disruption of normal menstrual cycles in premenopausal women. Although tamoxifen, a hormonal treatment for breast cancer, may increase the risk of bleeding in postmenopausal women, vaginal bleeding is unlikely to be a side effect of either chemotherapy or Herceptin. Most causes of vaginal bleeding are benign (non cancerous), however, unexplained postmenopausal vaginal bleeding warrents gynecologic evaluation.
