2014-04-11

Karma plans a randomized clinical trial to investigate the effect of different doses of Tamoxifen through measuring the decrease of breast density in healthy women.

Tamoxifen has been used for several years as adjuvant therapy for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Tamoxifen was introduced already in the 1970s and reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence with approximately 30%. Recent studies also indicate that use of Tamoxifen as primary prevention for healthy women at high risk reduce breast cancer incidence.

Our aim is to identify an optimal Tamoxifen dose for reducing risk of breast cancer. Mammographic density reduction will be used as a proxy for therapy response and thereby indirectly incidence.

The clinical trial is in planning phase and will be launched during 2015