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Suicidality and Illness Course Worsening in a Male Patient with Bipolar Disorder during Tamoxifen Treatment for ER+/HER2+ Breast Cancer.

Claudia CarmassiFrancesco PardiniValerio Dell'OsteAnnalisa CordoneVirginia PedrinelliMarly SimonciniLiliana Dell'Osso
Published in: Case reports in psychiatry (2021)
Male patients with a mood disorder history constitute a high-risk group as to Tamoxifen psychiatric side effects. The onset or worsening of depressive symptoms or suicidality should be carefully addressed and promptly treated, and clinicians should be encouraged to consider the possibility of discontinue or reduce Tamoxifen therapy after a multidisciplinary evaluation.
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