Abstract:Background: Tamoxifen is the most commonly used endocrine therapy (ET) for Breast Cancer (BC) patients expressing estrogen receptors (ER), representing almost 70% of all cases. However, one third of early stage BC patients demonstrate endocrine resistance to tamoxifen over the initial five-year treatment period, prompting significant research effort on identifying other drugs to alleviate tamoxifen resistance in ER + BC patients.Methods: We combined a total of 229 tamoxifen resistant and 363 tamoxifen sensitiv… Show more
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