Encyclopedia of Cancer

2011 Edition
| Editors: Manfred Schwab

Antiestrogens

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16483-5_318

Definition

It is referred to those drugs natural or man-made that are blocking the synthesis of estrogen or that abrogate the interaction of the estrogen with its receptor.

 Estradiol

 Estrogenic Hormones

 Fulvestrant

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