Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Source: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Tamoxifen citrate
Accord-UK Ltd
L02BA01
Tamoxifen citrate
20mg
Oral tablet
Oral
No Controlled Drug Status
Valid as a prescribable product
BNF: 08030401; GTIN: 5012617022158
PACKAGE LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE PATIENT TAMOXIFEN 20MG TABLETS READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS MEDICINE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU. • KEEP THIS LEAFLET. YOU MAY NEED TO READ IT AGAIN. • IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, ASK YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST. • THIS MEDICINE HAS BEEN PRESCRIBED FOR YOU ONLY. DO NOT PASS IT ON TO OTHERS. IT MAY HARM THEM, EVEN IF THEIR SIGNS OF ILLNESS ARE THE SAME AS YOURS. • IF YOU GET ANY SIDE EFFECTS, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST. THIS INCLUDES ANY POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS NOT LISTED IN THIS LEAFLET. SEE SECTION 4. WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET: 1. WHAT TAMOXIFEN TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR 2. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE TAMOXIFEN TABLETS 3. HOW TO TAKE TAMOXIFEN TABLETS 4. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS 5. HOW TO STORE TAMOXIFEN TABLETS 6. CONTENTS OF THE PACK AND OTHER INFORMATION 1. WHAT TAMOXIFEN TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR Tamoxifen is one of a group of medicines called anti-oestrogens. Tamoxifen Tablets may be used for: • treatment of breast cancer • some forms of female infertility caused by a failure to produce and release eggs (ovulate) properly. • reduce the risk of developing breast cancer occurring in those women who have an increased likelihood of developing breast cancer (your risk). It is important that your healthcare professional calculates your risk of developing breast cancer and discusses the result with you before commencing treatment. There are a number of specific tools available to calculate breast cancer risk, based on information such as your age, family history, genetics, reproductive factors (e.g. age when periods started and stopped, had children or not, taken or taking hormonal replacement therapy and/or oral contraceptive pill) and history of breast disease. Although the tools can estimate your risk, it doesn’t mean you will get breast cancer, being at increased risk means you have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. If you and your healthcare professi Read the complete document
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT TAMOXIFEN TABLETS BP 20mg 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains Tamoxifen Citrate PhEur equivalent to 20mg tamoxifen. Excipient with known effect Each 20mg tablet contains 228.80mg of Lactose PhEur. _ _ For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1. 3. PHARMACEUTICAL FORM White film-coated tablets. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS 1) Indicated for the treatment of breast carcinoma, particularly in oestrogen receptor positive patients. 2) For the treatment of anovulatory infertility. 3. The primary prevention of breast cancer in women at moderate or high risk (see section 5.1). Women aged less than 30 years old were excluded from primary prevention trials so the efficacy and safety of tamoxifen treatment in these younger women is unknown 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION Posology _ _ _Breast carcinoma_ The recommended daily dose of tamoxifen is normally 20mg. No additional benefit, in terms of delayed recurrence or improved survival in patients, has been demonstrated with higher doses. Substantive evidence supporting the use of treatment with 30-40mg per day is not available although these doses have been used in some patients with advanced disease. _ _ _Elderly patients_ Similar dosage regimens of tamoxifen have been used in elderly patients with breast cancer and in some of these pateints it has been used as sole therapy_. _ _ _ _Anovulatory infertility_ Before commencing any course of treatment, whether initial or subsequent, the possibility of pregnancy must be excluded. In women with regular menstruation but anovular cycles, treatment should be initiated with 20mg daily given on the second, third, fourth and fifth days of the menstrual cycle. If treatment is unsuccessful (unsatisfactory basal temperature records or poor pre-ovulatory cervical mucus), further courses may be given during subsequent menstrual periods, increasing the dosage to 40mg and then 80mg daily. In women with irregular Read the complete document