{"id":59,"date":"2013-09-16T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-09-16T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:08:16","slug":"what-are-the-side-effects-of-tamoxifen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/what-are-the-side-effects-of-tamoxifen\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the side effects of tamoxifen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Side effects and Risks of tamoxifen<\/h2>\n<p>Tamoxifen acts like an anti-estrogen in some tissues and acts like estrogen in other tissues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot flashes and night sweats<\/li>\n<li>Cancer of the uterus (most were endometrial cancer, a few were uterine sarcoma). \u00a0The risk is not present in those patients who have had \u00a0a hysterectomy.<\/li>\n<li>Blood clots (DVT, PE, and stroke)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tamoxifen is contraindicated in patients who continue to smoke due to the increased risk of thromboembolic disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Side effects and Risks of tamoxifen Tamoxifen acts like an anti-estrogen in some tissues and acts like estrogen in other tissues. Hot flashes and night sweats Cancer of the uterus (most were endometrial cancer, a few were uterine sarcoma). \u00a0The risk is not present in those patients who have had \u00a0a hysterectomy. Blood clots (DVT, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/what-are-the-side-effects-of-tamoxifen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are the side effects of tamoxifen?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breast-cancer","category-tamoxifen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}