{"id":839,"date":"2018-05-22T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/2018\/05\/22\/2768\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:26:31","slug":"2768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/opinions\/2768\/","title":{"rendered":"Oestrogene receptor expression level may affect mammographic density changes following discontinuation of tamoxifen in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oestrogene receptor expression level may affect <\/strong><strong>mammographic density changes following discontinuation of tamoxifen in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to congratulate Kim and colleagues for their article [1] in which they evaluated changes in mammographic density after tamoxifen discontinuation in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancers. They found that density increase is associated with age and density decrease after tamoxifen. However, authors did not take oestrogen receptor expression level into consideration as a variable that may affect mammographic density changes following discontinuation of tamoxifen in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Breast cancer patients having low oestrogen expression levels are not sensitive to tamoxifen [2]. Therefore, breast density changes after tamoxifen are expected to be lower in these patients which in turn affect mammographic density after tamoxifen discontinuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor: Oestrogene receptor expression level may affect mammographic density changes following discontinuation of tamoxifen in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer Dear Editor, I want to congratulate Kim and colleagues for their article [1] in which they evaluated changes in mammographic density after tamoxifen discontinuation in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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