Anastrozole Dosage
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Usual Adult Dose for:
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Usual Adult Dose for Breast Cancer
For the first-line treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive or hormone receptor unknown locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer: 1 mg tablet once a day.
Treatment should continue until tumor progression is evident.
Renal Dose Adjustments
Data not available
Liver Dose Adjustments
Data not available
Precautions
Safety and effectiveness have not been established in pediatric patients (less than 18 years of age).
Dialysis
Data not available
Other Comments
Anastrozole is indicated for the treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression following tamoxifen therapy.
Patients with ER-negative disease and patients who did not respond to previous tamoxifen therapy rarely respond to anastrozole.
