At least 10,500 women are diagnosed with advanced breast cancer each year. With the variety of treatment options available today, more women with advanced breast cancer are living longer with the disease. Advanced breast cancer is diagnosed when cancer that is originally confined to the breast is found in other parts of the body. More specifically, a woman is considered to have advanced disease when breast cancer cells form a tumor in places such as the lungs, liver or bones. Arimidex was first approved in 1996 as a treatment for postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer who progressed following hormonal treatment with tamoxifen.
Tamoxifen interferes with the cancer cell's ability to use estrogen for fuel to divide and grow.
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