Moment · In treatment
My first weeks on tamoxifen
Breast Cancer
Woven from the experiences of 355 women. Patient-reported, not medical guidance.
Tamoxifen is a pill, taken alone, at home, every day, for years. Women describe underestimating it because of what it is not — it is not chemo, not infusions, not the hardest part. But the side effects are significant and often not described upfront. Women also describe a specific emotional texture: gratitude that the worst is over, alongside a strange grief at still being, in some sense, in treatment.
In their words
Composite quotes, representative of many women, not verbatim.
“I thought tamoxifen would be the easy part. The pill you take after the hard stuff. It's not easy. Nobody warned me how much of a daily presence it would be.”
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